| LC control no. | n 85827248 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PT2617.E855 |
| Personal name heading | Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941 |
| Associated place | Munich (Germany) |
| Located | Berlin (Germany) Paris (France) |
| Birth date | 1880 |
| Death date | 1941 |
| Profession or occupation | Translator |
| Found in | nuc85-75916: His Heimliches Berlin, c1982 (hdg. on CU rept.: Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941; usage: Franz Hessel) Walking in Berlin, 2017: ECIP t.p. ( ) data view (Franz Hessel was born in 1880 to a Jewish banking family, and grew up in Berlin. After studying in Munich, he lived in Paris, moving in artistic circles in both cities. His relationship with the fashion journalist Helen Grund was the inspiration for Henri-Pierre Roche's novel and, later, Francois Truffaut's film Jules et Jim. Hessel co-translated Proust with Walter Benjamin, as well as works by Casanova, Stendhal, and Balzac. He died in early 1941, shortly after his release from an internment camp) |
| Associated language | ger fre |
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