Victor Ehrenberg (jurist)

Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg (August 22, 1851 - March 10, 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 Wolfenbuettel. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel he studied legal science from 1862 until 1871 in Göttingen, Leipzig, Heidelberg and Freiburg.

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

Ehrenberg married Elise Marie A. Helene von Jhering (1852-1920), daughter of the legal historian Rudolf von Jhering (1828–1892). Ehrenberg died in Göttingen on March 10, 1929.

His son, Rudolf Ehrenberg was professor for physiology and medicine at the University of Göttingen and his daughter Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) married scientist Max Born.

Ehrenberg was also 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.

Works
 Versicherungsgeschicht, 1893
 Die deutsche Rechtsgeschichte und die juristische Bildung, 1894

References

External links

 
 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.)
 pdf (German)
 pdf (German)

Category:1851 births
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Category:People from Wolfenbüttel
Category:People from the Duchy of Brunswick
Category:German Jews
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Category:University of Göttingen faculty
Category:Leipzig University faculty
Category:19th-century German people