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For what work is Jakob Grimm best known?

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He is best known, however, for his two-volume compilation of German folk tales, known as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-15, rev. eds. 1819-57), which he collected with his brother, Wilhelm Grimm, 1786-1859, and which did much to encourage the romantic revival of folklore.

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