A brief history of the Principality of Birkenfeld
ago today, 226 years Jacob Grimm
born, commonly known only by his brother and his tale is collected. 1837, at the age of 52, he wrote the protest of the Göttingen Seven Monday, January 10, 2011
and was therefore on 14 December 1837 by Ernst August I, King of Hanover, was removed from his post as professor at the University of Göttingen and the State referenced. The people paid him and two other expelled from the country their salaries by donations continue. 
The protest, the protest letter, found in Germany and spreading promoted a spirit of liberalism. Jacob Grimm explained later, his decision to protest in an apologia: "History shows us noble and free men who dared to say before the face of the king the whole truth, the Befugtsein belongs to those who have the courage to have. Often, their commitment has borne fruit, sometimes it has not corrupted her, her name. The poetry of history neglects reflection, not to acts of weighed prince of justice. Such examples solve the subjects of his tongue, where there is pressing need and comfort of each output " - Jacob Grimm . about my dismissal
. 1838
In the Frankfurt National Assembly1848 Jacob Grimm holds a place of honor, Albrecht, Dahlmann and Gervinus were co-authors of legislative initiatives. The monument near the state parliament in Hanover
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