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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, novelist, and painter. Although Hesse was born in Germany's Black Forest region of Swabia, his father's celebrated heritage as a Baltic German and his grandmother's French-Swiss roots had an intellectual influence on him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Hesse has received more than 4,223,192 page views. His biography is available in 113 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 108 in 2019). Hermann Hesse is the 40th most popular writer (down from 39th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Germany and the 4th 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

Among writers, Hermann Hesse ranks 40 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Frank, Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, and Charles Dickens. After him are Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Stendhal, Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, and Aristophanes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Hermann Hesse ranks 1. After him are Isadora Duncan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, and Louis Renault. Among people deceased in 1962, Hermann Hesse ranks 3. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, and Eleanor Roosevelt. After him are Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, William Faulkner, Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, and Gaston Bachelard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Hesse ranks 32 out of 7,253. Before him are Max Planck (1858), Johannes Brahms (1833), Karl Dönitz (1891), Anne Frank (1929), Friedrich Schiller (1759), and Martin Heidegger (1889). After him are Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Angela Merkel (1954), Thomas Mann (1875), and Erwin Rommel (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hermann Hesse ranks 4. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Anne Frank (1929), and Friedrich Schiller (1759). After him are Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Eckhart Tolle (1948).

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