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Hesse, Hermann

(Encyclopedia)Hesse, Hermann hĕsˈə [key], 1877–1962, German novelist and poet. A pacifist, he went to Switzerland at the outbreak of World War I and became (1923) a Swiss citizen. The spiritual loneliness of ...

Hesse

(Encyclopedia)Hesse hĕs, hēsˈē, hĕsˈə [key], Ger. Hessen, state, 8,150 sq mi (24,604 sq km),...

Hesse-Darmstadt

(Encyclopedia)Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Homburg, and Hesse-Kassel: see Hesse, Germany. ...

Hesse, Eva

(Encyclopedia)Hesse, Eva hĕsˈə [key], 1936–70, American sculptor, b. Hamburg, Germany. Hesse's sculpture displays an antiformalism that developed in the late 1960s in reaction against conventional geometric co...

Hesse-Nassau

(Encyclopedia)Hesse-Nassau, former Prussian province: see Hesse; Nassau. ...

Hermann

(Encyclopedia)Hermann, d. a.d. 21: see Arminius. ...

Hesse, Philip of

(Encyclopedia)Hesse, Philip of: see Philip of Hesse. ...

Philip of Hesse

(Encyclopedia)Philip of Hesse hĕs [key], 1504–67, German nobleman, landgrave of Hesse (1509–67), champion of the Reformation. He is also called Philip the Magnanimous. Declared of age in 1518, he helped suppre...

Cohen, Hermann

(Encyclopedia)Cohen, Hermann kōˈən [key], 1842–1918, German philosopher. He was a founder of the Neo-Kantian Marburg school and was known for his commentaries on Kant. His own works include Logik der reinen Er...

Bahr, Hermann

(Encyclopedia)Bahr, Hermann hĕrˈmän bär [key], 1863–1934, Austrian dramatist and critic. His essay Zur Kritik der Moderne (1890) established modernism as a literary term, and his study Expressionismus (1916, ...