Editing Brothers Grimm (section)

=== Göttingen ===
[[File:Im Kolleg bei Jacob Grimm 1830.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Jacob Grimm lecturing (illustration by [[Ludwig Emil Grimm]], {{circa|1830}})]]
On 15&nbsp;May 1825 Wilhelm married Henriette Dorothea “Dortchen” Wild, a pharmacist's daughter and childhood friend who had given the brothers several tales.<ref>See German (wikipedia.de) page on Wild (Familie) for more of Wilhelm's in-laws.</ref> Jacob never married but continued to live in the household with Wilhelm and Dortchen.<ref name="Z(1988)7ff">{{Harvnb|Zipes|1988|pp=7–9}}</ref> In 1830 both brothers were overlooked when the post of chief librarian came available, which disappointed them greatly.<ref name="Z218ff" /> They moved the household to [[Göttingen]] in the [[Kingdom of Hanover]], where they took employment at the [[University of Göttingen]]—Jacob as a professor and head librarian and Wilhelm as a professor.<ref name="Pitt" />

For the next seven years the brothers continued to research, write, and publish. In 1835 Jacob published the well-regarded ''German Mythology'' ({{lang|de|[[Deutsche Mythologie]]}}); Wilhelm continued to edit and prepare the third edition of {{lang|de|Kinder- und Hausmärchen}} for publication. The two brothers taught [[German studies]] at the university, becoming well-respected in the newly established discipline.<ref name="Z(1988)7ff" />

In 1837 the brothers lost their university posts after joining the rest of the [[Göttingen Seven]] in protest. The 1830s were a period of political upheaval and peasant revolt in Germany, leading to the movement for democratic reform known as [[Young Germany]]. The brothers were not directly aligned with the Young Germans, but they and five of their colleagues reacted against the demands of [[Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover]], who in 1837 dissolved the parliament of [[Hanover]] and demanded oaths of allegiance from civil servants—including professors at the University of Göttingen. For refusing to sign the oath, the seven professors were dismissed and three were deported from Hanover—including Jacob, who went to Kassel. He was later joined there by Wilhelm, Dortchen, and their four children.<ref name="Z(1988)7ff" />

[[File:Göttinger Sieben Brüder Grimm 2.jpg|left|upright=1.2|thumb|Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, {{circa|1837}}]]

The brothers were without income and again in extreme financial difficulty in 1838, so they began what would become a lifelong project—the writing of a definitive dictionary, the ''German Dictionary'' ({{lang|de|[[Deutsches Wörterbuch]]}})—whose first volume was not published until 1854. The brothers again depended on friends and supporters for financial assistance and influence in finding employment.<ref name="Z(1988)7ff" />