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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the oldest Grimm brother?
A
Jakob
B
Wilhelm
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were the oldest in a family of five brothers and one sister.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) Jacob, the older of the two Grimm brothers, was born in Hanau, Germany, on January 4, 1785 to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm and Dorothea Zimmer Grimm, and grew up the eldest of six children.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jacob Grimm died on 20 September 1863, in Berlin, Germany from natural causes, at the age of 78.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jacob Grimm was a German folklorist, linguist, and philologist. He and his younger brother Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) co-operated in collecting, compiling, and revising German folk tales into “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” (1812). By its final revised edition in 1857, the collection included 210 unique fairy tales.

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