Hermann Hesse

Quality:

Hermann Hesse - Nobel Prize winning German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter (1877–1962). This person is the 2279^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 320^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Hermann Hesse” in German Wikipedia has 97.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 103 references and 27 sections.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian (Nynorsk) Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1041^st most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 424^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 320^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8004^th most popular in all topics.

The 3768^th most popular in AI.

The 2279^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1851^st most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 6394^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9669^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Hermann Hesse” was edited by 4 authors in German Wikipedia (6394^th place) and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Hermann Hesse”, its content was written by 767 registered users of German Wikipedia (424^th place) and edited by 4038 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3768^th place).

Hermann Hesse is on the 320^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 2279^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1388 times in German Wikipedia (7506^th place) and cited 13259 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #81 in July 2008
• Global: #210 in July 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #87 in August 2012
• Global: #3220 in August 2012

There are 55 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Hermann Hesse		100
2	German (de) Hermann Hesse		97.9035
3	Slovenian (sl) Hermann Hesse		92.5038
4	English (en) Hermann Hesse		82.766
5	Georgian (ka) ჰერმან ჰესე		72.5978
6	Italian (it) Hermann Hesse		72.3015
7	Hungarian (hu) Hermann Hesse		66.3602
8	Russian (ru) Гессе, Герман		54.8594
9	Chinese (zh) 赫尔曼·黑塞		48.6174
10	Greek (el) Έρμαν Έσσε		47.4852

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hermann Hesse		7 425 131
2	German (de) Hermann Hesse		7 042 474
3	Spanish (es) Hermann Hesse		3 534 384
4	Russian (ru) Гессе, Герман		2 389 665
5	Italian (it) Hermann Hesse		1 996 922
6	Japanese (ja) ヘルマン・ヘッセ		1 597 755
7	French (fr) Hermann Hesse		1 238 983
8	Portuguese (pt) Hermann Hesse		813 662
9	Polish (pl) Hermann Hesse		550 234
10	Persian (fa) هرمان هسه		470 486

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hermann Hesse		34 167
2	German (de) Hermann Hesse		21 317
3	Russian (ru) Гессе, Герман		9 382
4	Spanish (es) Hermann Hesse		8 460
5	Chinese (zh) 赫尔曼·黑塞		6 931
6	Japanese (ja) ヘルマン・ヘッセ		6 482
7	Italian (it) Hermann Hesse		6 040
8	French (fr) Hermann Hesse		5 860
9	Korean (ko) 헤르만 헤세		3 732
10	Portuguese (pt) Hermann Hesse		2 262

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hermann Hesse		767
2	English (en) Hermann Hesse		512
3	Italian (it) Hermann Hesse		240
4	French (fr) Hermann Hesse		238
5	Spanish (es) Hermann Hesse		167
6	Russian (ru) Гессе, Герман		141
7	Dutch (nl) Hermann Hesse		122
8	Japanese (ja) ヘルマン・ヘッセ		96
9	Hebrew (he) הרמן הסה		86
10	Finnish (fi) Hermann Hesse		81

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Hermann Hesse		4
2	Croatian (hr) Hermann Hesse		2
3	Swedish (sv) Hermann Hesse		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Херман Хесе		1
5	Catalan (ca) Hermann Hesse		1
6	English (en) Hermann Hesse		1
7	Spanish (es) Hermann Hesse		1
8	Dutch (nl) Hermann Hesse		1
9	Simple English (simple) Hermann Hesse		1
10	Turkish (tr) Hermann Hesse		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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