Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1875-06-06
Death 1955-08-12
Germans,
German, English,

Biographical notes:

Epithet: novelist

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000173

German author.

From the description of Land of good will : typewritten article signed, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609625

From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : Bad Tölz, to Herr Fischer, his publisher, 1909 Aug. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607913

From the description of Autograph quotation signed from his verse dram "Florenza", Act II : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608786

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Zurich, to Mr. Schaer, 1952 Dec. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607923

From the description of Typewritten letter signed, and autograph letter signed : Munich and Küsnacht, to Denver Lindley, 1934 Feb. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609632

German novelist.

From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Pacific Palisades, Ca., to Slochawer, 1941 May 24 and [1943 Mar. 14]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844706

From the description of Certificate : autograph manuscript signed : Germany, Princeton, N.J., 1925 July 25 and 1940 June 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844187

From the description of Autograph note signed : Pacific Palisades, Ca., to an unidentified collector, 1952 Apr. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844712

From the description of Chamisso : autograph manuscript signed of the essay : [n.p., 1911 Feb. 13]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270844191

Novelist and essayist.

From the description of Thomas Mann papers, 1909-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982721

From the description of Thomas Mann papers, 1924-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984643

Mann was a German novelist and essayist.

From the guide to the Thomas Mann compositions, 1945 and undated., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Mann was a German novelist and essayist. Hatfield (Harvard graduate, 1933) was an American scholar and a German literary critic, and a Harvard faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

From the description of Letters to Henry Caraway Hatfield, 1947-1951. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 78553330

Mann received an honorary doctorate of letters at Harvard in 1935.

From the description of Meerfahrt mit Don Quijote : manuscript, 1934. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612758305

Thomas Mann was one of the most significant and popular novelists of the 20th century. His complex, experimental, and philosophical novels were influential in their creative and analytical approach to ideas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.

From the description of Thomas Mann letters, and pamphlets, 1929-1955. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51907489

Mann was a German novelist and essayist. Hatfield (Harvard graduate, 1933) was an American scholar, a German literary critic, and a Harvard faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

From the guide to the Letters to Henry Caraway Hatfield, 1947-1951., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German author.

From the description of Thomas Mann collection, 1894-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702135945

Author.

From the description of Letters, 1946-1954. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 39178742

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist and essayist. He won the 1929 Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels Buddenbrooks, which was also his first novel, and The Magic Mountain .

From the guide to the Thomas Mann Collection, 1938-1948, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

Katharina ("Katia") Mann (née Pringsheim) was Thomas Mann's wife.

From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1911-1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155863903

Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875-August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate.

From the description of Thomas Mann letter : Los Angeles, Calif., to Mr. Pratt, 1940 Sept. 21. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 778727240

Thomas Mann, German writer.

From the description of Thomas Mann manuscript material : 1 item, 1940 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 727143910

From the guide to the Thomas Mann manuscript material : 1 item, 1940, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.)

Brother of Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann was an author of novels, plays, and essays. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, fled Germany and came to the U.S. (to Princeton) in 1938, and became a citizen in 1944. Among his best-known works (in English translation) are BUDDENBROOKS (1901), DEATH IN VENICE (1912), and THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1924).

From the description of Thomas Mann collection, 1881-1971. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 122591040

Mann was a German novelist and essayist.

Papers are in German.

From the description of Compositions, 1945 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84491344

Thomas Mann, a German novelist and essayist, was born in Lubeck in 1875. He published his first collection of short stories, Der kleine Herr Friedemann in 1898, and his first novel, Buddenbrooks in 1901. His other novels include Der Zauberberg (1924), Joseph und sein Bruder (1933-1943), Doktor Faustus (1947), Der Erwahlte (1951), and Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull . Mann also wrote a number of short stories including Tonio Kroger (1903), Tristan (1903), Der Tod in Venedig (1912) and Mario und der Zauberer (1930). Mann often wrote about the isolation of the artist and the conflict between artists and others. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929.

Mann married Katia Pringsheim in 1905, and together they had six children. Mann fled Germany after Adolf Hitler assumed power, and settled in Switzerland, where he criticized the Nazi government from afar. In 1938, Mann immigrated to the United States. He lectured at Princeton University and throughout the United States, and continued to publish. In 1942, he moved to Pacific Palisades, California and took up residence among several other prominent German exiles. In 1944, he became an American citizen, but in 1952 returned to Switzerland, after being accused of having Communist affliations. He died in 1955 in Kilchberg, near Zurich.

From the guide to the Thomas Mann Collection, 1918-1952, 1918-1952, (University of Cincinnati, Archives and Rare Books Library)

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Subjects:

  • German literature
  • Authors, German
  • Authors, German
  • Authors, German
  • Authors, German
  • Authors, German
  • Exiles
  • Exiles' writings
  • German American authors
  • German fiction
  • German fiction
  • Jews in literature
  • Literature
  • Novelists, German
  • Novelists, German
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Speeches, addresses, etc., German

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  • Authors
  • Critic
  • Essayist
  • Novelists
  • Translator

Places:

  • Germany (as recorded)
  • Germany (as recorded)

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