Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, the son of a doctor, was born in 1847 in Weissenstein, Governorate of Estonia in the Russian Empire (now Paide, Järva County, Estonia). In describing her own childhood, she said, "A happy child I was not." As was usual among missionaries at the time, she was left behind in Europe at the age of four when her parents returned to India. Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born at such a mission in South India in 1842. His grandfather Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar and a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contributed to a translation of the Bible into Malayalam in South India. His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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. Hermann Karl Hesse ( German: ( listen) 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1955).
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