Hesse (disambiguation)

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Hesse may refer to:

Contents 1 Place names 2 Human names 2.1 Rulers of Hesse 3 See also

[edit] Place names

• The German State of Hesse (Bundesland Hessen), or an inhabitant there of (1946-present)

• Greater Hesse was a German territory created by the US military administration in at the end of World War II (1945-1946)

• Landgraviate of Hesse (1264-1567) :
  • Hesse-Darmstadt (1567-1945) :
    • Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (1567-1806)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Butzbach (1609–1643)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg (1622–1866)
        • Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg-Bingenheim
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Braubach (1625–1651)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Itter (1661–1676)
    • Grand Duchy of Hesse (1806-1918)
    • People's State of Hesse (1918-1945)
  • Hesse Kassel (1567-1945)
    • Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (1567-1806)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg (1627–1834)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Eschwege (1627–1755)
      • Landgraviate of Hesse-Philippsthal
        • Landgraviate of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
    • Electorate of Hesse-Kassel (1803–1866)
    • Province of Hesse-Nassau (1868-1945)
  • Landgraviate of Hesse-Rheinfels (1567-1583)
  • Landgraviate of Hesse-Marburg (1485-1500 and 1567-1604/1650)

• Hesse, Moselle, a place in Lorraine, France

• Hesse District, Upper Canada

[edit] Human names

• Adolf Friedrich Hesse (1809-1863), composer
• Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851-1918), Austrian travel-author
• Eva Hesse (1936-1970), painter and sculptor
• Eva Hesse (author) (born 1925), German author
• Hermann Hesse (1877–1962), German-born poet, novelist, and painter
• Hermann Albert Hesse (1877-1957), German theologian
• Karen Hesse (born 1952), US writer
• Konrad Hesse (1919-2005), German jurist
• Otto Hesse (1811-1874), German mathematician, known for the Hessian matrix
• Mary Hesse (born 1924), US philosopher
• Richard Hesse (1868–1944), German zoologist

[edit] Rulers of Hesse

(See Rulers of Hesse)

• Alexandra of Hesse
• Elisabeth of Hesse
• Henry I of Hesse
• Louis IV of Hesse
• Louise Caroline of Hesse
• Marria Alexandrovna of Hessee
• Otto I of Hesse
• Philipp I of Hesse
• William IV of Hesse

[edit] See also

• Hesse's Rule in zoology (after Richard Hesse)
• Hess