Thomas Mann's daughter, ambassador of oceans, dies
Date: 12-Feb-02
Country: SWITZERLAND
The hospital near St Moritz declined to confirm her death.
Mann Borgese, an ecologist who fought for the preservation of the oceans, wrote numerous papers and books and contributed to conferences on maritime issues. She had been dubbed "ambassador of the oceans".
She was a university professor in Halifax, Canada, founded the International Ocean Institute in Malta and was one of the founders of the Club of Rome, a group of scientists focusing on worldwide environmental problems.
Born in 1918 in Munich as the fifth of the six children of Thomas Mann and Katja Pringsheim, she emigrated with her parents to Switzerland in 1933 and lived near Zurich.
Like her Nobel-prize winning father, who wrote "Buddenbrooks" and "The Magic Mountain", Mann Borgese was a keen skier and had been at St Moritz in the southeastern Grisons on a winter sports holiday.
She had been married to Guiseppe Antonio Borgese, an art historian who was 36 years her senior and died in 1952.
Mann Borgese is likely to be buried in the Mann family grave in Kilchberg near Zurich.