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Thomas Mann

1875 - 1955

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Paul Thomas Mann (UK: MAN, US: MAHN; German: [ˈtoːmas ˈman] ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are 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 versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer. Mann was a member of the hanseatic Mann family and portrayed his family and class in his first novel, Buddenbrooks. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Mann is the 70th most popular writer (down from 53rd in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 37th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Writer.

Thomas Mann is most famous for his novel "The Magic Mountain."

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Among writers, Thomas Mann ranks 70 out of 7,302. Before him are Aeschylus, Bertolt Brecht, Selma Lagerlöf, Rabindranath Tagore, Jorge Luis Borges, and Stefan Zweig. After him are Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Frost, Romain Rolland, Charles Perrault, Umberto Eco, and Giacomo Casanova.

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Among people born in 1875, Thomas Mann ranks 2. Before him is Carl Jung. After him are Maurice Ravel, Aleister Crowley, Vallabhbhai Patel, Syngman Rhee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Schweitzer, D. W. Griffith, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, and Jeanne Calment. Among people deceased in 1955, Thomas Mann ranks 3. Before him are Albert Einstein, and Alexander Fleming. After him are James Dean, Dale Carnegie, José Ortega y Gasset, Arthur Honegger, Sadako Sasaki, James B. Sumner, Alberto Ascari, Fernand Léger, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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Among people born in Germany, Thomas Mann ranks 53 out of 7,253. Before him are Felix Mendelssohn (1809), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Robert Koch (1843), Marlene Dietrich (1901), and Alexander von Humboldt (1769). After him are Gerd Müller (1945), William I, German Emperor (1797), Adolf Eichmann (1906), Georg Ohm (1789), Hildegard of Bingen (1098), and Erwin Rommel (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Thomas Mann ranks 6. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Anne Frank (1929), Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), and Bertolt Brecht (1898). After him are Heinrich Heine (1797), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Friedrich Hölderlin (1770).

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