Ninon Hesse
Deceased Person
1895 – 1966
Who was Ninon Hesse?
Ninon Hesse was an art historian and Hermann Hesse's 3rd wife.
Ninon Ausländer was born to a Jewish lawyer in Czernowitz and studied archaeology, art history and medicine in Vienna, Austria. In 1918, she married caricaturist B. F. Dolbin, whom she left in 1920; the official divorce only took place in 1931.
Although she had written a letter to Hesse after reading his novel Peter Camenzind in 1910, she only met him in 1922. The two lived together from 1927 and got married in 1931.
Ninon Hesse played an important role in Hermann Hesse's life not only as the love of his life, but also as she helped him to continue with his work when his eyes got weak by reading to him and writing for him and by collecting and editing his writings and letters after his death in 1962.
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- Born
- Sep 18, 1895
Chernivtsi - Also known as
- Ninon Ausländer
- Ninon Dolbin
- Spouses
- Hermann Hesse
(1931/11 - 1962/08/09)
- Hermann Hesse
- Died
- Sep 22, 1966
Montagnola
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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