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

Biography

Ehrenberg was born in

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. He was the son of a

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couple, Philipp Samuel Ehrenberg and Julie Fischel, Principal of the Samson School in Wolfenbüttel. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel he studied legal science in

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and

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. His brothers were Otto Ehrenberg and

Richard Ehrenberg Richard Ehrenberg (5 February 1857 – 17 December 1921) was a German economist. He taught at Rostock University from 1899 to 1921. Literary works * ''Hamburg und Antwerpen seit 300 Jahren'', 1889 * ''Hamburg und England im Zeitalter der Kön ...

. He gave lectures at the Universities of

(from 1877),

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(1882), again Göttingen (1888) and then

(1911–1922). Ehrenberg married Elise Marie A. Helene von Jhering (1852–1920),Martin Luther Genealogy Browse -- J
at www.members.tripod.com daughter of the legal historian

Rudolf von Jhering Caspar Rudolph Ritter von Jhering (also Ihering) (22 August 1818 – 17 September 1892) was a German jurist. He is best known for his 1872 book ''Der Kampf ums Recht'' (''The Struggle for Law''), as a legal scholar, and as the founder of a ...

(1818–1892). Ehrenberg died in Göttingen on 10 March 1929. His son was professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Göttingen and his daughter Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) married scientist Max Born. Ehrenberg was a great-grandfather of Australian singer and actress

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, an uncle of historian Victor Ehrenberg, a great-uncle of physicist and education researcher

Lewis Elton Lewis Richard Benjamin Elton (born Ludwig Richard Benjamin Ehrenberg; 25 March 1923 – 29 September 2018) was a German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education. Early life Born in Tübingen to the ...

and of historian

Geoffrey Elton Sir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the Tudor period. He taught at Clare College, Cambridge, and w ...

, and a great-great uncle of comedian and writer

Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms '' The Young Ones'' and ''Bla ...

Works

* ''Versicherungsgeschichte'', 1893 * ''Die deutsche Rechtsgeschichte und die juristische Bildung'', 1894

References

External links

*
Moller
at www.lib.hit-u.ac.jp (about his books)

at www.sussex.ac.uk (about pedigree, historian V. Ehrenberg, etc.)
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(German) 1851 births 1929 deaths People from Wolfenbüttel People from the Duchy of Brunswick 19th-century German Jews Jurists from Lower Saxony University of Rostock faculty University of Göttingen faculty Leipzig University faculty 19th-century German lawyers {{Germany-law-bio-stub Ehrenberg family