Ernst Dohm - Biography

Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst (or Ernest) Dohm, pseudonym is Karlchen Mießnick (b. Elias Levy Dohm 24 May 1819, Breslau - 5 February 1883, Berlin) was a German editor, actor, and translator.

He was Jewish and a convert to Christianity. He married feminist Hedwig Dohm, and had 5 children:

1. Hans Ernst Dohm (1854–1866)
2. (Gertrud) Hedwig (Anna) Dohm (1855–1942) = married Jewish scientist Alfred Pringsheim
3. Ida Marie Elisabeth Dohm (1856-?)
4. Marie Pauline Adelheid Dohm (1858-?)
5. Eva Dohm (1860-?)

He became a grandfather of the musician Klaus Pringsheim, Sr. and Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, the wife of Thomas Mann. He was a chief-editor of the Kladderadatsch, a satirical magazine founded in 1848, until 1849.

See also

• Dohm-Mann family tree
• Hedwig Dohm
• Julius Rodenberg
• David Kalisch

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