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Hermann Hesse

1877 - 1962

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Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions, combined with his involvement with Jungian analysis, helped to shape his literary work. His best-known novels include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality. Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, a town in Germany's Northern Black Forest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Hesse is the 40th most popular writer, the 35th most popular biography from Germany (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Writer.

Hermann Hesse is most famous for his book, "Demian: The Story of a Youth," which was published in 1919.

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Among writers, Hermann Hesse ranks 40 out of 7,302. Before him are H. G. Wells, Khalil Gibran, Anne Frank, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, and Matsuo Bashō. After him are Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, and Simone de Beauvoir.

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Among people born in 1877, Hermann Hesse ranks 1. After him are Muhammad Iqbal, Isadora Duncan, Charles Glover Barkla, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1962, Hermann Hesse ranks 4. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Niels Bohr. After him are Adolf Eichmann, William Faulkner, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Stuart Sutcliffe, Karen Blixen, Lucky Luciano, Arthur Compton, and Georges Bataille.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Hesse ranks 35 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Engels (1820), Angela Merkel (1954), Max Planck (1858), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anne Frank (1929), and Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368). After him are Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Martin Heidegger (1889), Karl Dönitz (1891), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Friedrich Schiller (1759), and Robert Schumann (1810).

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Among writers born in Germany, Hermann Hesse ranks 3. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), and Anne Frank (1929). After him are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).

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