Franz Hessel (November 21, 1880 – January 6, 1941) was a German writer and translator.
With Walter Benjamin, he produced a German translation of three volumes of Marcel Proust's 1913-1927 work À la recherche du temps perdu in the late 1920s.
In 1901, he attended the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he published twelve poems in Avalun.
In 1913, he married Helen Grund, and published Der Kramladen des Glücks.
"[5] Concluding, Benjamin wrote: "if a Berliner is willing to explore his city for any treasures other than neon advertisements, he will grow to love this book.