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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hesse, Hermann

Hesse, Hermann
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hesse's Life, Works, And Impact

Family background

Like many German writers, Hermann Hesse came from a family which had for
many generations been associated with the Protestant clergy. The father,
Johannes Hesse, was a protestant clergyman who belonged to the pietistic
tradition, a liberal branch of German Protestantism which stressed a concern
for the individual's relationship to God above strict formal dogma. Hermann
was later to acknowledge the importance of the religious atmosphere of his
childhood, as, for example, in a letter dated 1950 in which he ...

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