Editing Hermann Hesse (section)

=== Education ===
[[File:Middle Bridge, Basel, Switzerland.JPG|thumb|The Swiss city of [[Basel]], which became an important point of reference throughout Hesse's life and played an important role during the author's education]]
In 1881, when Hesse was four, the family moved to [[Basel]], Switzerland, staying for six years and then returning to Calw. After successful attendance at the Latin School in [[Göppingen]], Hesse entered the [[Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren|Evangelical Theological Seminary]] of [[Maulbronn Monastery|Maulbronn Abbey]] in 1891. The pupils lived and studied at the abbey, one of Germany's most beautiful and well-preserved, attending 41 hours of classes a week. Although Hesse did well during the first months, writing in a letter that he particularly enjoyed writing essays and translating classic Greek poetry into German, his time in Maulbronn was the beginning of a serious personal crisis.<ref>Zeller, pp. 26–30</ref> In March 1892, Hesse showed his rebellious character, and, in one instance, he fled from the Seminary and was found in a field a day later. Hesse began a journey through various institutions and schools and experienced intense conflicts with his parents. In May, after an attempt at suicide, he spent time at an institution in [[Bad Boll]] under the care of theologian and minister [[Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt]]. Later, he was placed in a mental institution in [[Stetten im Remstal]], and then a boys' institution in Basel. At the end of 1892, he attended the [[Gymnasium (school)|Gymnasium]] in Cannstatt, now part of [[Stuttgart]]. In 1893, he passed the One Year Examination, which concluded his schooling. The same year, he began spending time with older companions and took up drinking and smoking.<ref>Freedman (1978) p. 53</ref>

After this, Hesse began a bookshop apprenticeship in [[Esslingen am Neckar]], but quit after three days. Then, in the early summer of 1894, he began a 14-month mechanic apprenticeship at a clock tower factory in Calw. The monotony of soldering and filing work made him turn himself toward more spiritual activities. In October 1895, he was ready to begin wholeheartedly a new apprenticeship with a bookseller in [[Tübingen]]. This experience from his youth, especially his time spent at the seminary in Maulbronn, he later returned to in his novel ''[[Beneath the Wheel]]''.