Herman Hesse 1

Herman Hesse 1

Herman Hesse was born on July 2, 1877, in Calw, Germany. The son of a former Pictist missionary, Hesse was expected to join the ministry and Was sent to the Maulbronn seminary in 1892 to complete his education. Three months after arriving in Maulbronn, Hesse began to suffer from chronic headache and insomnia. He-was promptly sent to the Pastor Christoph Bltunhardt for treatment. The treatment was not very effective and Hesse's unrequited love for the pastor's daughter made him suicidal. He was then sent to a school for the emotionally unstable. After a few months Hesse was released for pod behaviour and he resumed his education at Cannstadt. At Cannstadt he began-to drink-, smoke, and incur heavy debts. in 1892, his formal education was at an end and his parents called him back to Calw.

After helping his father in his publishing. business, Hesse became an apprentice book-seller in Tubingen, a usual occupation for budding German authors. Hesse’s time in Tubingen was characterized by obsessive reading and solitary contemplation. It was during this time in Tubingen that Hesse published his first poems, melancholy neo-Romantic lyrics expressing, his uneasiness with the world. In 1899 he moved to Basel where he worked again as a bookseller. He also did freelance journalism, which inspired him first novel, Peter Camenzid (1904), the story of a dissolute writer trying to negotiate the difficult space between individualism and collectivism. This was followed by Beneath the wheel (1906),. A semi autobiographical novel recounting the story of a precocious youth under the pressure of over beating parents and teachers.

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