Jacob Grimm  

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"Jakob Grimm’s saying, according to which translating resembles a ship manned to sail the seas, but though it safely carries the goods, it must land at shore with a different soil under a different air."--Katharina Reiss

"Was übersetzen auf sich habe, läßt sich mit demselben Wort, dessen Akzent ich bloß zu ändern brauche, deutlich machen: übersétzen ist übersetzen, traducere navem. Wer nun zur Seefahrt aufgelegt, ein Schiff bemannen und mit vollem Segel an das Gestade jenseits führen kann, muß dennoch landen, wo anderer Boden ist und andere Luft streicht."-- Über das Pedantische in der deutschen Sprache" (1847) by Jacob Grimm

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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. He is best known as the author of the monumental German Dictionary, his Deutsche Mythologie and more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.


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