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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Mann has received more than 3,786,637 page views. His biography is available in 117 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 113 in 2019). Thomas Mann is the 53rd most popular writer (up from 61st in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Germany (up from 50th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Writer.

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

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thomas Mann ranks 53 out of 7,302. Before him are Jane Austen, Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, Octave Mirbeau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sappho. After him are Mark Twain, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, and Stefan Zweig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Thomas Mann ranks 1. After him are Carl Jung, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Ravel, Albert Schweitzer, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, Mileva Marić, Syngman Rhee, Gerd von Rundstedt, Jeanne Calment, and Albert I of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1955, Thomas Mann ranks 3. Before him are Albert Einstein, and Alexander Fleming. After him are James Dean, Dale Carnegie, Sadako Sasaki, António Egas Moniz, José Ortega y Gasset, Fernand Léger, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Thomas Mann ranks 37 out of 7,253. Before him are Martin Heidegger (1889), Hermann Hesse (1877), Franz Beckenbauer (1945), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Heinrich Himmler (1900), and Angela Merkel (1954). After him are Erwin Rommel (1891), Robert Koch (1843), Hermann Göring (1893), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Werner Heisenberg (1901), and Alexander von Humboldt (1769).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Thomas Mann ranks 5. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Anne Frank (1929), Friedrich Schiller (1759), and Hermann Hesse (1877). After him are Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Erich Maria Remarque (1898), Charles Bukowski (1920), Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), and Eckhart Tolle (1948).

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