# James Tienappel — The Magic Mountain character guide

> James Tienappel in The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Tienappel, James, Uncle James, Consul Tienappel

**First appearance:** 0029-mounting-misgivings-of-the-two-grandfathers-and-the-boat-ride-in-the-twilight

## Who they are

Hans Castorp's uncle from Hamburg who visits the Berghof to persuade his nephew to return home.

## Relationships

### [Hans Castorp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/characters/hans_castorp)

_family_

Hans's uncle and guardian who visits from the flatland to try to bring him back to his ordinary life.

### [Hans Castorp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/characters/hans_castorp)

_family_

Hans's uncle and guardian who visits from the flatland to try to bring him back to his ordinary life.

### [Hans Castorp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/characters/hans_castorp)

_family_

Hans's uncle and guardian who visits from the flatland to try to bring him back to his ordinary life.

## In the story

### [At Tienappels’, and of Young Hans’s Moral State](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/at-tienappels-and-of-young-hans-s-moral-state)

Hans's uncle and guardian, administrator of the Castorp estate. A weighty, prosperous consul who lives on Harvestehuderstrasse and ensures Hans wants for nothing.

### [An Attack, and a Repulse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/an-attack-and-a-repulse)

The envoy from the flat-land. He is bewildered by Hans's extended stay, eats and drinks heartily but is internally alarmed, and flees after a week, dreading the readjustment to life below.

### [The Thunderbolt](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_magic_mountain_se/chapters/the-thunderbolt)

Mentioned indirectly as the uncle who was left to 'stultify himself' following the death of old Consul Tienappel, Hans's great-uncle and foster-father.

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