Christian Wilhelm von Dohm
Christian Wilhelm von Dohm was a German historian and political writer.Biography
Dohm was born in Lemgo on 11 December 1751. Although the son of a Lutheran pastor at, he was a staunch advocate for Jewish emancipation. He entered Prussian officialdom in 1779, first as archivist in Berlin. In 1781, Dohm published a two-volume work entitled Ueber die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden, which argued for Jewish political equality on humanitarian grounds. It was widely praised by the Jewish communities in Berlin, Halberstadt, and Suriname. In 1786 he was ennobled, gaining him the nobiliary particle von before his surname.
Dohm died on his estate near Nordhausen on 29 May 1820.
