Elisabeth Mann-Borgese

Elisabeth Veronika Mann Borgese, CM (April 24, 1918 – February 8, 2002) was an internationally recognized expert on maritime law and policy and the protection of the environment. She was one of the founding members – and for a long time the only female member – of the Club of Rome and worked as a university professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Mann Borgese was born in Munich, Germany as the youngest daughter of Katia Pringsheim and her husband, the famous German author Thomas Mann. Her uncle Heinrich Mann, Thomas's brother, also was a novelist. Her brothers and sisters are Klaus, Erika, Golo, Monika and Michael Mann. By Erika Mann's marriage, she became sister-in-law to W. H. Auden. The Mann family left Germany after Hitler came to power, moving first to Switzerland, and, in 1938, to the United States. In 1939 she married the anti-fascist Italian writer and professor of literature Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882–1952), 36 years her senior, by whom she had two daughters, Angelica (born 1941) and Dominica (born 1944), who lost their father when they were 11 and 8 years old respectively; hence, Mann Borgese raised her teenagers as a single parent, who from 1953 to 1967 lived with a new partner, Corrado Tumiati.

After German and Czech citizenship (as a rescue measure, in 1936), she became a United States citizen in 1941, taking Canadian citizenship in 1983.

Among musicians, Mann Borgese is known for having translated Heinrich Schenker's Harmony into English.

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