Snow White is from Germany, as the original story of Snow White is a 19th-century German fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm. The story was first published in 1812 in the first edition of their collection of folk tales, "Grimms Fairy Tales". Although there have been various theories about the real-life inspirations for Snow White, including Margarete von Waldeck and Maria Sophia von Erthal, both from Germany, these theories are generally dismissed by serious scholars as pure speculation.