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Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941

LC control no.n 85827248
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPT2617.E855
Personal name headingHessel, Franz, 1880-1941
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Associated placeMunich (Germany)
LocatedBerlin (Germany) Paris (France)
Birth date1880
Death date1941
Profession or occupationTranslator
Found innuc85-75916: 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 languageger fre