When Hans Peter Grimm was born on 7 September 1692, in Kusel, Kusel, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Johann Jacob Grimm Sr., was 44 and his mother, Anna Catharina Heinrich, was 37. He died on 21 January 1694, in Kusel, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at the age of 1.
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German and Swiss German: nickname for a dour and forbidding individual, from Old High German grim ‘stern, severe’.
German and Swiss German: from an ancient Germanic personal name from grīma ‘mask, helmet’. This surname (in any of the possible senses; see also 1 above) is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
English: from Middle English grim ‘fierce, grim’.
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