- ^ Hofrat (literally, court advisor) is an honorific title given by monarchs or, as in this case, their family members to people of merits. It is not his title as director of the sanatorium, which is 'Director'. However, the novel mirrors the then German custom to call Hofräte by their honorific rather than their functional title. The 1996 English translator of The Magic Mountain, John E. Woods, uses 'Director' as a translation.
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