Hermann Eris Busse (9 March 1891,

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

– 15 August 1947) was a German

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

and

literary critic A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature' ...

. He is best known for his

Black Forest The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...

novels and his biography of the 17th-century German writer Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen.

Major works

* ''Bauernadel'' (trilogy of novels), 1930. * ''Der Letzte Bauer'' (novel), 1930. *''Mein Leben'' (autobiography), 1935. *''Grimmelshausen,'' 1939. *''Glorian und die Frevlerin'' (stories), 1944. 1891 births 1947 deaths Writers from Freiburg im Breisgau People from the Grand Duchy of Baden German literary critics Writers from Baden-Württemberg German male novelists 20th-century German novelists 20th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-novelist-stub