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When Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) – professor of law and political science, activist and world citizen – stepped up to the speaker’s desk to give the Nexus Lecture in 1999, she said, ‘The idealists of today are the realists of tomorrow. The realists of today are dead tomorrow’.¹ Those two sentences encapsulated her core values.
Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, née le 24 avril 1918 à Munich et morte le 8 février 2002 à Saint-Moritz, est une universitaire, écrivaine, défenseure des ressources marines et fondatrice de l'International Oceans Institute (Institut international des océans). Elle est aussi la plus jeune fille de Thomas Mann et de son épouse Katia Pringsheim, la sœur de Klaus, Erika, Golo, Monika et Michael ...
Elisabeth Mann Borgese bleibt zunächst in Italien, wo sie sich mit ihren beiden Töchtern in San Domenico bei Fiesole in der Toskana niederlässt. Die junge Witwe arbeitet als Übersetzerin und Redakteurin für das Kulturmagazin Perspectives und veröffentlicht 1960 ihren ersten Erzählband To Whom It May Concern , der 1965 unter dem Titel 2 Stunden.
Figlia del grande scrittore tedesco Thomas Mann lasciò la Germania con i familiari nel 1933, dopo che Hitler aveva preso il potere, trasferendosi dapprima in Svizzera e successivamente, nel 1938, negli Stati Uniti.Diventò cittadina americana nel 1941, e nel 1983 le fu conferita anche la cittadinanza canadese.. Nel 1939 sposò l'antifascista italiano e scrittore Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882 ...
18 de may. de 2023 · Elisabeth Mann Borgese was born in 1918 in Germany, and escaped with her family to France, then Switzerland, and finally the United States when Hitler came to power. 15 She read Sicilian Guiseppe Antonio Borgese’s writings on fascist totalitarianism when she was eighteen years old, met him in Princeton in 1938, and married him in 1939 when he was fifty-seven and she twenty-one. 16 In her ...
4 Elisabeth Mann-Borgese (1918-2002), Allemagne Sebastian Weissenberger. Héritière d’un nom célèbre (son père Thomas Mann a été prix Nobel de littérature en 1929), Elisabeth Mann-Borgese s’est forgé une réputation mondiale en droit de l’environnement.
Ocean governance expert Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918–2002) spent decades working with the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention. Throughout this sprawling series of global conferences, she navigated allegiances and enmities, intrigues and setbacks, fighting determinedly to develop a just ocean order. Featuring extensive research and new ...
