Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst (or Ernest) Dohm (born Elias Levy Dohm; also known by his pseudonym ''Karlchen Mießnick''; 24 May 1819, Breslau – 5 February 1883,

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

) was a German

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, ...

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, and

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. He was

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ish and a convert to Christianity. He married the feminist

Hedwig Dohm Marianne Adelaide Hedwig Dohm (née Schlesinger, later Schleh; 20 September 1831 – 1 June 1919) was a German feminist and author. Family She was born in the Prussian capital Berlin to assimilated Jewish parents, and her father was baptized. ...

and had five children: # Hans Ernst Dohm (1854–1866) # (Gertrud) Hedwig (Anna) Dohm (1855–1942), married to the Jewish scientist

Alfred Pringsheim Alfred Pringsheim (2 September 1850 – 25 June 1941) was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia (now Oława, Poland) and died in Zürich, Switzerland. Family and academic career Pringsheim came ...

# Ida Marie Elisabeth Dohm (1856–?) # Marie Pauline Adelheid Dohm (1858–?) # Eva Dohm (1860–?) He became a grandfather of the musician Klaus Pringsheim Sr. and Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, the wife of

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...

. He was a chief-editor of ''

Kladderadatsch ''Kladderadatsch'' (onomatopoeic for "Crash") was a satirical German-language magazine first published in Berlin on 7 May 1848. It appeared weekly or as the ''Kladderadatsch'' put it: "daily, except for weekdays." It was founded by Albert Hofmann ...

'', a satirical magazine founded in 1848, until 1849.

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