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

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) was a German

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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 writer. Family Hedwig Dohm was born in the Prussian Prussia (; ; Old Prussian: ''Prūsija'') was a German ...

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 the father-in-law of the author and Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann. Family and academic career Pringsheim was born in Ohlau, Prov ...

# 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 novell ...

. 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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