Ecologist Elisabeth Mann Borgese From: The Washington Post | Date: February 10, 2002 | Copyright 2002 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 83, an activist for protecting the world's oceans and the last surviving child of German literary giant Thomas Mann, died of a respiratory infection Feb. 8 in a hospital in Samedan, Switzerland, near St. Moritz. She had become ill while on a ski trip.

Her father won the 1929 Nobel Prize for literature.

Ms. Mann Borgese was an ecologist who fought for the preservation of the oceans, wrote numerous papers and books, and contributed to conferences on maritime...

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