The novelist Jacob Grimm died at the age of 78. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
One half of the Brothers Grimm, he and his brother Wilhelm co-wrote fairytales such as Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. His best-known works include Kinder-und Hausmärchen (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and Deutsche Mythologie. A noted philologist in addition to a mythologist, he also published the Deutsches Wörterbuch, a comprehensive German dictionary.
He never married, and he lived for a time with his brother and literary collaborator Wilhelm.