Why did hermann hesse write siddhartha

Herman Hesse, a renowned German poet and novelist, was born into a family of pietist missionaries and publishers in Calw, Württemberg. His mother, Maria (Gundert) Hesse, was a philologist and missionary who had spent many years in India and married Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, after being widowed. Johannes Hesse had also been involved in missionary work in India. In , the family moved to Basel, where his father taught at a missionary school until , when

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