Júlia da Silva Bruhns

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1851 – 1923

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Who was Júlia da Silva Bruhns?

Júlia da Silva Bruhns was the wife of the Lübeck senator and grain merchant Johann Heinrich Mann, and mother of writers Thomas Mann and Heinrich Mann.

Júlia, a Roman Catholic, was born in Paraty, Brazil, the daughter of the German farmer Johann Ludwig Herman Bruhns and of Brazilian Maria Luísa da Silva, the daughter of a Portuguese immigrant. Júlia's father owned several sugar cane plantations between Santos and Rio de Janeiro. Her mother died in childbirth at 28 when Júlia was six. She had three brothers and one sister. One year after her mother's death, her father decided to send his children back to Germany. They lived in Lübeck, where Júlia had an uncle. At six, Julia didn’t speak a word of German. She stayed in a boarding school until she was 14 years old, while her father was back in Brazil caring for the farms.

She married Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann in 1869. She was 17, he 29. They had five children:

Heinrich Mann

Thomas Mann

Julia Mann

Carla Mann

Viktor Mann

After the death of her husband and as consequence of a bladder surgery, Júlia went to live in Munich with her children.

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Born
Aug 14, 1851
Paraty
Also known as
  • Julia da Silva Bruhns
  • Julia Mann
  • Dodo
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • Empire of Brazil
  • German Empire
  • German Reich
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Died
Mar 11, 1923
Weßling

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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