Mannheim

American  

[man-hahym, mahn-hahym] / ˈmæn haɪm, ˈmɑn haɪm /

noun

1. Karl 1893–1947, German sociologist.

2. a city in SW Germany at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar rivers.

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Mannheim ¹ British  

/ ˈmanhaim, ˈmænhaɪm /

noun

1. a city in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg at the confluence of the Rhine and Neckar: one of Europe's largest inland harbours; a cultural and musical centre. Pop: 308 353 (2003 est)

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Mannheim ² British  

/ ˈmanhaɪm /

noun

1. Karl (karl). 1893–1947, Hungarian sociologist, living in Britain from 1933: author of Ideology and Utopia (1929) and Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction (1941)

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Mannheim

Born in 1838 in Cologne and educated in Leipzig and Mannheim, young Max Bruch developed a fondness for the lyrical, intimate romanticism of Schumann and Mendelssohn, and an equally powerful antipathy toward Wagnerian maximalism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Many Germans "had hoped for much faster change," political scientist Marc Debus of Mannheim University told AFP.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

Claassen worked with Ralph Hertwig, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Jutta Mata, an associate research scientist at the Institute and Professor for Health Psychology at the University of Mannheim.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

That kind of dividing line feels real, so it’s only natural to want to map that onto a social identity, as Mannheim was proposing.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025

They paired off and traveled by train to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe, where they mailed the leaflets from undisclosed locations.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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