Golo Mann

Also known as Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann

German-Swiss historian (1909-1994)

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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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Active from: 1909
Active to: 1994

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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 14,431x
Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
· 1945 · cited 13,872x
On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other
· 1947 · cited 10,884x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
The Perseus computational platform for comprehensive analysis of (prote)omics data
· 2016 · cited 8,201x

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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.”

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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

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Image: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F053560-0013, Rhöndorf, Sitzung Stiftung Adenauer-Haus (Golo Mann).jpg

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Commons category: Golo Mann
date of birth: 1909-03-27
date of death: 1994-04-07
birth name: Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann
name in native language: Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann
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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.