1877 - 1962
Hermann Karl Hesse (German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈhɛsə] ; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge, and spirituality. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Hesse has received more than 3,948,904 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Hermann Hesse is the 39th most popular writer (up from 42nd in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 30th 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 39 out of 5,755. Before him are Alexandre Dumas, Aeschylus, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Alexander Pushkin, and Marcel Proust. After him are Denis Diderot, Friedrich Schiller, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Aristophanes, and Euripides.
1802 - 1870
HPI: 81.83
Rank: 33
525 BC - 456 BC
HPI: 81.70
Rank: 34
1854 - 1900
HPI: 81.49
Rank: 35
1903 - 1950
HPI: 81.47
Rank: 36
1799 - 1837
HPI: 81.46
Rank: 37
1871 - 1922
HPI: 81.44
Rank: 38
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 39
1713 - 1784
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 40
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 41
1788 - 1824
HPI: 81.31
Rank: 42
1775 - 1817
HPI: 81.26
Rank: 43
448 BC - 386 BC
HPI: 81.19
Rank: 44
480 BC - 406 BC
HPI: 81.14
Rank: 45
Among people born in 1877, Hermann Hesse ranks 1. After him are Isadora Duncan, Hjalmar Schacht, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, and Edgar Cayce. Among people deceased in 1962, Hermann Hesse ranks 2. Before him is Marilyn Monroe. After him are Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, Eleanor Roosevelt, William Faulkner, Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, and Arthur Compton.
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 1
1877 - 1927
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 2
1877 - 1970
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 3
1877 - 1926
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 4
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 5
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 8
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 10
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 11
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12
1926 - 1962
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 1
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 2
1885 - 1962
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 3
1906 - 1962
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 5
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 6
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 7
1880 - 1962
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 8
1897 - 1962
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 9
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 10
1928 - 1962
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 11
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 12
Among people born in Germany, Hermann Hesse ranks 32 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick the Great (1712), Johannes Brahms (1833), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Max Planck (1858), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Martin Heidegger (1889). After him are Karl Dönitz (1891), Robert Schumann (1810), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Erwin Rommel (1891), Hermann Göring (1893), and Pope Benedict XVI (1927).
1712 - 1786
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 26
1833 - 1897
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 27
1900 - 1945
HPI: 81.82
Rank: 28
1858 - 1947
HPI: 81.76
Rank: 29
1859 - 1941
HPI: 81.60
Rank: 30
1889 - 1976
HPI: 81.59
Rank: 31
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 32
1891 - 1980
HPI: 81.39
Rank: 33
1810 - 1856
HPI: 81.35
Rank: 34
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 35
1891 - 1944
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 36
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 37
1927 - 2022
HPI: 80.78
Rank: 38
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), Charles Bukowski (1920), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Heinrich Böll (1917), Novalis (1772), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).
1749 - 1832
HPI: 88.78
Rank: 1
1929 - 1945
HPI: 83.42
Rank: 2
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 3
1759 - 1805
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 4
1898 - 1956
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 5
1875 - 1955
HPI: 79.06
Rank: 6
1797 - 1856
HPI: 77.71
Rank: 7
1920 - 1994
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 8
1898 - 1970
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 9
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 10
1772 - 1801
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 11
1770 - 1843
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 12