Hesse


 
 
Hesse

Hesse is also the name of the German writer Hermann Hesse, as well as the German mathematician Otto Hesse. See also Hesse (disambiguation)

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With an area of 21,110 km? and just over six million inhabitants, Hesse (German: Hessen) is one of Germany's sixteen federal states (Bundesl?nder). The capital is Wiesbaden.

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Situated in western-central Germany, Hessen borders on (from the north-west and clockwise) the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-W?rttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. Its principal cities include Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Kassel, Gie?en, Marburg, Wetzlar, Offenbach and Fulda.


 

Hermann Hesse: Hermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 ? August 9, 1962) was a German author, and the winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is most famous for his novels Steppenwolf, Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game), and Siddhartha....

Otto Hesse: Ludwig Otto Hesse (22 April 1811 – 4 August 1874) was a German mathematician. Hesse was born in K?nigsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) and died in Munich, Germany....

Hesse (disambiguation): Hesse refers to:...


Hesse related Images and Photos (experimental)

Portrait of Adolf  Duke of Hesse-Nassau (1817-1895)
Portrait of Adolf Duke of Hesse-Nassau (1817-1895)
Peasants' Revolt Thomas Munezer Leader of the Peasants Just Before the Defeat by Philip of Hesse
Peasants' Revolt Thomas Munezer Leader of the Peasants Just Before the Defeat by Philip of Hesse

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