Hermann Hesse (2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Swiss poet, author and painter.
- Hesse was a headstrong child, his mother wrote “The little fellow has a life in him, an unbelievable strength, a powerful will, and, for his four years of age, a truly astonishing mind.”
- Hermann Gundert, Hermann Hesse’s grandfather and a doctor of philosophy (as well as fluent in multiple languages), encouraged his grandson to read a lot, and even gave him access to his library.
- Hesse tried to work in a bookshop, but quite after 3 days.
- Hesse, Maria Bernoulli, was from a famous family of mathematicians.
- In World War I, Mr. Hesse Hesse volunteered with the Imperial army but was found unfit for combat duty. Instead he was assigned to care for POWs.
- Maria suffered from psychosis and after her recovery the couple separated.
- Hesse attempted to work against Hitler‘s suppression of art and literature that protested Nazi ideology. The Nazis eventually banned his work in their magazines.
- In 1946, Mr. Hesse received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- The New York Times went so far as to claim that Hesse’s works were largely “inaccessible” for American readers.
- Hesse calculated that his average daily correspondence exceeded 150 pages.
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