Hermann Hesse

@Poets, Family and Life ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hermann Hesse was a German novelist and poet, often hailed as one of the greatest German writers Cancer Celebrities Nobel Laureates In Literature German Swiss Artists & Painters Artists Writers Poets Celebrated as one of the finest and most influential writers, Hermann Hesse belonged to the set of writers who were largely disillusioned by proceedings around them during the twentieth century. Most of his writings cited a longing for the bygone era of Romanticism and expressed his spiritual turmoil, deeply rooted in the pathos of the modern age as it was slowly losing its association with the inner self. But despite this, he provided his concept of an ideal world which can be seen as the remnant of the Romantic school of thought. Like Blake and Wordsworth, he concentrated on the three stages of development of human life, which begins with childhood innocence, moving on experience and later comes back to innocence. But this chronology may not be germane in the modern age, especially, the world left devastated and distraught after the two World Wars. He believed people born during or after the great wars are not likely to gain the ‘pre-WWI innocence’ and therefore are “confronted with the necessity to make free choices and judgments” in their second stage of life. Almost all of his novels dealt with this theme. As the world was still recovering from the wreckage of the Wars, his characters searched for the meaning of life which entailed the rejection of the conventional paths to peace.

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Birthday: July 2, 1877 Died on: August 9, 1962 Nationality: German, Swiss Famous: Nobel Laureates In Literature, Artists & Painters, Artists, Writers, Poets Spouses: Maria Bernoulli, Ninon Auslander, Ruth Wenger Siblings: Theo Childrens: Bruno Hesse, Heiner Hesse, Martin Hesse Information Detail Birthday July 2, 1877 Died on August 9, 1962 Nationality German, Swiss Famous Nobel Laureates In Literature, Artists & Painters, Artists, Writers, Poets Spouses Maria Bernoulli, Ninon Auslander, Ruth Wenger Siblings Theo Childrens Bruno Hesse, Heiner Hesse, Martin Hesse Discoveries / Inventions Theosophy Birth Place Calw Born Country Germany Gender Male Father Johannes Hesse Mother Marie Gundert Sun Sign Cancer Born in Calw Famous as Poet Died at Age 85

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He got married to Maria Bernoulli in 1904 and the couple had three sons. Unsplash Personal Life

In 1924, he married singer Ruth Wenger, but their married life was quite unstable and they soon got separated. Unsplash Personal Life

He married historian Ninon Dolbin, n�e Ausl�nder in 1927. Unsplash Personal Life

Hermann Hesse was born in the town of Calw in W�rttemberg, Germany. Both of his parents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He attended the Latin School in Goppingen and entered the Evangelical Theological Seminary of Maulbronn Abbey in 1891. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In March 1892, he fled from the Seminary and in May the same year, he even attempted suicide and had to spend time with the theologian Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt. Later he was moved to a mental institution. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He attended the Gymnasium in Cannstatt, in 1892 and in 1893 he passed the One Year Examination, to complete his schooling. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

After this, he began a bookshop apprenticeship in Esslingen am Neckar, but left after three days. In the beginning of summer in 1894, he began a 14-month mechanic apprenticeship at a clock tower factory in Calw. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

In 1896, Hesse’s poem ‘Madonna’ was published in the Viennese periodical. In the autumn of the same year, his first small volume of poetry, ‘Romantic Songs’ was published. Unsplash Career

In 1904, his breakthrough novel ‘Peter Camenzind’ was published which received rave reviews. Unsplash Career

His second novel ‘Beneath the Wheel’ was published in 1906. ‘Gertrude’, another novel by him was published in 1910. Unsplash Career

In 1912, he settled in Switzerland. But soon the First World War broke out and he became disillusioned with German nationalism Unsplash Career

In 1917, he penned his novel ‘Demian’, which was published in 1919. Unsplash Career

His novel ‘Steppenwolf’ became an international success, which reflected the abysmal crisis in Hesse's spiritual world in the 1920s. Unsplash Major Works

The novel ‘Siddhartha’ was about the spiritual journey of a man named Siddhartha. The book took Hesse’s fame to great heights and became an international hit. It was translated into many languages. Unsplash Major Works

His last novel ‘The Glass Bead Game’, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	July 2, 1877
Died on	August 9, 1962
Nationality	German, Swiss
Famous	Nobel Laureates In Literature, Artists & Painters, Artists, Writers, Poets
Spouses	Maria Bernoulli, Ninon Auslander, Ruth Wenger
Siblings	Theo
Childrens	Bruno Hesse, Heiner Hesse, Martin Hesse
Discoveries / Inventions	Theosophy
Birth Place	Calw
Born Country	Germany
Gender	Male
Father	Johannes Hesse
Mother	Marie Gundert
Sun Sign	Cancer
Born in	Calw
Famous as	Poet
Died at Age	85

Hermann Hesse

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Jul 2, 1877

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