In this five-day search for information, Leonard Ethan found a note written by Jacob Green in the summer of 1863 among a large pile of original materials, less than three months before his death.
"Unfortunately, I no longer have the energy to sort out the fairy tales that belong to the German-speaking people themselves. I hope that the materials I leave behind can help future generations to compile our own national collection of fairy tales."
These words were left in Jacob Green's last notebook, and from the handwriting, the other party must have been very emotional when writing this content.
For the Grimm Brothers, whether writing fairy tales or compiling dictionaries, they had one purpose, which was to make their own contribution to the unification of Germany.
It's easy to understand that they had such thoughts because their youth was spent under Napoleon's occupation of Germany.
