Franz Hessel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German writer and translator
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Place of Birth: Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship
About Franz Hessel
- Franz Hessel (November 21, 1880 – January 6, 1941) was a German writer and translator.
- With Walter Benjamin, he produced a German translation of three volumes of Marcel Proust's 1913-1927 work À la recherche du temps perdu in the late 1920s.Hessel's parents, Fanny and Heinrich Hessel, came to Berlin in 1880, and joined the Lutheran church (having been born Jewish).
- Hessel became one of the first German exponents of the French idea of flânerie, and in 1929 published a collection of essays on the subject related to his native Berlin, Walking in Berlin (German: Spazieren in Berlin).Hessel's son Stéphane Hessel became a diplomat. Hessel inspired the character of Jules in Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim.
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