European Literary Masters Codexery — Data & Quality

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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-05 · 10 entries checked · 5 flagged · 8 issues confirmed · 5 corrected · 3 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

E. T. A. Hoffmann — Hoffmann's father, Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann, is not described in standard sources as a poet and amateur musician; he was a jurist.

Ernesto Sabato — The entry states Sabato attended lectures at the Sorbonne but was not formally enrolled; however, he did formally study at the Sorbonne (Faculté des Sciences) in 1938, though he did not complete a degree there.

Ernesto Sabato — The LORE section says he worked at MIT; this is not supported by standard biographies—he worked at the Curie Institute in Paris and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is sometimes mentioned in some sources, but it is not a widely establis

Eyvind Johnson — Johnson nominated Giorgos Seferis for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, but the correct year is 1963.

Thomas Mann — Mann did not use his 1929 Nobel Prize money to build a cottage in Nida, Lithuania; the cottage was built in 1930–1931 using other funds, and the Nobel money was largely used to pay off debts and taxes.

Thomas Mann — The entry states Mann lived in Munich from 1891 to 1933, but he moved to Munich with his family in 1893, not 1891.

W. G. Sebald — The entry incorrectly states that Sebald's PhD dissertation was titled 'The Revival of Myth: A Study of Alfred Döblin's Novels'; that title actually belongs to his habilitation thesis.

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