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Thomas Mann

Died in 1955

Thomas Mann was born in 1875 in Lübeck, into a patrician family of merchants. His first novel, published in 1901, earned him the Nobel Prize in 1929. A supporter of the war in 1914, he rallied in the early twenties to the Weimar Republic and defended it. In 1933 he settled in Switzerland, became a Czechoslovak citizen in 1936, then went to the United States, where he taught at Princeton and addressed speeches against Hitler to the Germans over the BBC. Having returned to Switzerland in 1952, he died in Zurich in 1955.

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