The Magic Mountain
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The Magic Mountain is a German novel written by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp. While staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanator
First German edition (1924)
A picture of mountain scenery at Davos, the novel's Alpine setting
Mann in 1926
Parzival: knights ascend to the Grail Castle
Sanatorium
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A sanatorium, also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence.
The Magic Mountain
…by Thomas Mann, published in November 1924 about a young and aspiring engineer Hans Castorp. While staying in the secluded world of a high-altitude sanatorium in the years leading up to 1914, Hans encounters otherworldly figures who confront him with politics, philosophy, but also romance, illness, and death…
Brehmer sanatorium, photo before 1905, founded by Austrian physician Hermann Brehmer in Görbersdorf, Silesia (now Sokołowsko, Poland). Brehmer established the first German sanatorium for the systematic open-air treatment of tuberculosis; it was the first institution of its kind.[citation needed]
Hällnäs sanatorium, founded in 1926, was one of the largest sanatoria in Sweden for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
A 1978 Finnish postage stamp, depicting the 1933 Paimio tuberculosis sanatorium, designed by Alvar Aalto
The Lima Tuberculosis Hospital in 1911