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Hermann Hesse

Died in 1962

Hermann Hesse was born in 1877 in Calw, in Württemberg, into a family of Protestant missionaries. Destined for theology, he ran away at fifteen from the Maulbronn seminary, went through years of crisis, then served his apprenticeship in a Tübingen bookshop. In November 1914, an appeal to German intellectuals against nationalist polemics, published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, brought him violent attacks. He settled in 1919 in Montagnola, in Ticino, painted in watercolour and became a Swiss citizen. Nobel Prize winner in 1946, he died in Montagnola in 1962.

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