Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Goethe, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer.
His older brother was the radical writer Heinrich Mann, and three of his six children, Erika Mann, Klaus Mann and Golo Mann, also became important German writers.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, the anti-fascist Mann fled to Switzerland. When World War II broke out in 1939, he emigrated to the United States, from where he returned to Switzerland in 1952. Thomas Mann is one of the most known exponents of the so called Exilliteratur. (Source)
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German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
| Born | 6 June 1875 |
| Died | 12 August 1955 |
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German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
| Born | 6 June 1875 |
| Died | 12 August 1955 |
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Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Correspondence, German Authors, Criticism and interpretation, Politics and government, German Novelists, Biography, German literature, German language, History, Translations into English, Democracy, German fiction, Mann, thomas, 1875-1955, Fiction, short stories (single author), Readers, Diaries, Political and social views, German language materials, In literature, Bible, Germany, fiction, History of Biblical events, World War, 1914-1918Places
Germany, Europe, Prussia (Germany), Spain, Venice (Italy), Weimar (Thuringia), Germany (West), Lübeck (Germany), Munich (Germany), Alabama, Alemania, Allemagne, Araby, Araby bazaar, Carthage, Davos, Foreign countries, France, Great Britain, Italy, Jefferson, Lubeck, Lubeck (Germany), Lübeck, MilanPeople
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Joseph (Son of Jacob), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Jacob (Biblical patriarch), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Leo Tolstoy graf (1828-1910), Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Charlotte Buff (1753-1828), Moses (Biblical leader), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1753-1828), Frederick II King of Prussia (1712-1786), Heinrich Mann (1871-1950), Paul Amann (1884-1958), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), René Schickele (1883-1940), Theodor Storm (1817-1888), Charlotte Buff Kestner (1735-1828), Erich Kahler (1885-1970), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), Gottfried Bermann Fischer (1897-), H. T. Lowe-Porter (1876-1963), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)Time
20th century, 1918-1933, 19th century, 1740-1806, 1740-1815, 1933-1945, 1789-1900, 18th century, 1918-1945, Civil War, 1936-1939, 1712-1786, 1861-65, 1914-, 1914-1918, 1938-, 1945-1955, Antebellum era, Revolution, 1848-1849, antiquity to mid-20th centuryID Numbers
- OLID: OL22973A
- Amazon ID: B000APYYJI
- BookBrainz: 8b4cd498-a7d7-42df-bac0-ebd07ac7eb44
- GoodReads: 19405
- ISNI: 0000000121333953
- IMDb: nm0003407
- Library of Congress Names: n78095625
- LibraryThing: mannthomas-1
- LibriVox: 10558
- MusicBrainz: b6458172-8cd1-47c3-a8d3-2011dd96b4cf
- Project Gutenberg: 4200
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV006259
- VIAF: 54151065
- Wikidata: Q37030
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q37030
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Alternative names
- Томас Манн
- Т.Манн
- Paul Thomas Mann
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