His parents expected him to follow the family tradition in theology - they had served as missionaries in India. Johannes Hesse, his father, was born a Russian citizen in Weissenstein, Estoniaologist, Hermann Gundert. Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg. A spiritual guide assists the hero in his quest for self-knowledge and shows the way beyond the world "deluded by money, number and time." Several of Hesse's novels depict the protagonist's journey into the inner self. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. German poet and novelist, who has explored in his work the duality of spirit and nature and individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the society.
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