Júlia da Silva Bruhns
Writer, Author
1851 – 1923
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
- Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
(1869 - 1923)
- Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann
- Children
- Nationality
- Empire of Brazil
- German Empire
- German Reich
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 11, 1923
Weßling
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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