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Originally Posted by issybird
I didn't know what to make of the name Thomas. The obvious reference is to doubting Thomas, but nothing occured to me to develop that, and then it's Mann's name, too, which is a little odd.
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I guess there is no great riddle behind the name. It was the name of the father of Thomas Mann, who was the example for this figure. His full name was Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann.
You can read a little bit more about the members of the Mann-family on this wikipedia site:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_(Familie)
It is in German but has a link to the English version too.