# Grandfather Castorp — The Magic Mountain character guide

> Grandfather Castorp in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Hans Lorenz Castorp, Senator Castorp, old Castorp

**First appearance:** 0008-of-the-christening-basin-and-of-grandfather-in-his-twofold-guise

## Who they are

Hans Castorp's grandfather, a senator, remembered from Hans's childhood.

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