When Anna Catharina Grimm was born on 20 April 1700, in Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, her father, Johan Jacob Grimm Jr., was 23 and her mother, Anna Catharina Schang, was 23. She died on 14 May 1765, at the age of 65.
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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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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