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Golo Mann
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German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)
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Golo Mann (1909–1994) was a German and Swiss writer, essayist, historian, and university teacher. Born in Munich as Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, he was the son of Thomas Mann and Katia Mann. His siblings included Michael, Klaus, Erika, and Monika Mann. Mann served in the United States Army during World War II and worked for the Office of Strategic Services. He held academic positions at the University of Stuttgart, Claremont McKenna College, and the University of Münster.
Mann was a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Georg Büchner Prize, the Schiller Memorial Prize, and the Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt. His works include *Weltgeschichte*, *Secretary of Europe*, and *Geschichte und Geschichten*. He worked in Kilchberg and died in Leverkusen.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1909
- Died
- 1994
- Works
- 100
Top works
- Geschichte und Geschichten
- LERNEN IM AUSLAND - VOM GEHEIMRAT DUISBERG ZUR CARL DUISBERG-GESELLSCHAFT
- 100 Jahre Auswärtiges Amt
- Secretary of Europe
- Weltgeschichte
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 351
- Total plays
- 58,664
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MaxQuant enables high peptide identification rates, individualized p.p.b.-range mass accuracies and proteome-wide protein quantification
· 2008 · cited 14,600x
- Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 14,310x
- On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other
· 1947 · cited 11,217x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,206x
- The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data
· 2016 · cited 8,393x
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Quotes
- ““We cannot have another world war. War is the wrong word. We should ban the term ‘World War III’ and say instead apocalypse or holocaust.””
- “Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.”
- “Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann , ( 1909-03-27 ) 27 March 1909, Munich , Kingdom of Bavaria , German Empire
- Died
- 7 April 1994 (1994-04-07) (aged 85), Leverkusen , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Alma mater
- University of Freiburg
- Known for
- German History in the 19th and 20th Century (1958); Wallenstein; sein Leben erzählt (1971); Erinnerungen und Gedanken. Eine Jugend in Deutschland (1986)
- Parents
- Thomas Mann (father) Katia Pringsheim (mother)
- Fields
- Historian
- Institutions
- Claremont Men's College , California; University of Stuttgart
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Golo Mann (born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann; 27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) was a popular German historian and essayist. After completing a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann, and other members of his family in emigrating first to France, then to Switzerland and, on the eve of war, to the United States. From the late 1950s he re-established himself in Switzerland and West Germany as a literary historian.
Mann was perhaps best known for his master work German History in the 19th and 20th Century (1958). A survey of German political history, it emphasised the nihilistic and aberrant nature of the Hitler regime. In his later years, Mann took issue with historians who sought to contextualise the crimes of the regime by comparing them with those of Stalinism in Soviet Union and with wartime Allied bombing. At the same time he was sharply critical of those, broadly on the left, who carried a unique German guilt for the Holocaust not only back into the pre-Nazi past but forward in a manner that seemed to question the legitimacy of the postwar Federal Republic.
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