Victor Ehrenberg (jurist)

Victor Ehrenberg
Ehrenberg in 1926
Born	Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg (1851-08-22)22 August 1851 Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick in the German Confederation
Died	10 March 1929(1929-03-10) (aged 77) Göttingen, Germany
Occupation	Jurist
Spouse	Elise Marie A. Helene von Jhering (died 1920)
Children	1
Relatives	Richard Ehrenberg (brother) Victor Ehrenberg (nephew) Hans Ehrenberg (nephew) Geoffrey Elton (great-nephew) Lewis Elton (great-nephew) Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg (great-nephew) Olivia Newton-John (great-granddaughter) Ben Elton (great-great-nephew)

Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg (22 August 1851 – 10 March 1929) was a German jurist.

Biography

Ehrenberg was born in Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick. He was the son of a Jewish couple, Philipp Samuel Ehrenberg and Julie Fischel, Principal of the Samson School in Wolfenbüttel. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel he studied legal science in Göttingen, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Freiburg. His brothers were Otto Ehrenberg and Richard Ehrenberg.

He gave lectures at the Universities of Göttingen (from 1877), Rostock (1882), again Göttingen (1888) and then Leipzig (1911–1922).

Ehrenberg married Elise Marie A. Helene von Jhering (1852–1920),^[1] daughter of the legal historian Rudolf von Jhering (1818–1892). Ehrenberg died in Göttingen on 10 March 1929.^{[citation needed]}

His son Rudolf Ehrenberg [de] was professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Göttingen and his daughter Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) married scientist Max Born.^{[citation needed]}

Ehrenberg was a great-grandfather of Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, an uncle of historian Victor Ehrenberg, a great-uncle of physicist and education researcher Lewis Elton and of historian Geoffrey Elton, and a great-great uncle of comedian and writer Ben Elton.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Versicherungsgeschichte, 1893
• Die deutsche Rechtsgeschichte und die juristische Bildung, 1894

References

External links

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• Works by or about Victor Ehrenberg at Internet Archive
• Moller at www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp (about his books)
• CGJS: Elton / Ehrenberg at www.sussex.ac.uk (about pedigree, historian V. Ehrenberg, etc.)
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• pdf (German)

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