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Biography
Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg was a German jurist. Ehrenberg was born in Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick on 22 Aug 1851. 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).
His son, Rudolf Ehrenberg was a professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Göttingen, and his daughter Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) married the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born.
Ehrenberg was also a great-grandfather of Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John, an uncle of historians Victor Ehrenberg and Geoffrey Elton, a great-uncle of physicist and education researcher Lewis Elton, and a great-great uncle of comedian and writer Ben Elton.
Victor passed away on 10 Mar 1929 in Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Westdeutschland. He was buried in Stadtfriedhof Göttingen in Göttingen.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242475837/victor-gabriel-ehrenberg: accessed 16 September 2022), memorial page for Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg (22 Aug 1851–9 Mar 1929), Find a Grave Memorial ID 242475837, citing Stadtfriedhof Göttingen, Göttingen, Landkreis Göttingen, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany; Maintained by H (contributor 47768976).
- Victor Ehrenberg on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Barghouti, Kim, comp. Who's Who in the World, 1910-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
- Ancestry.com. Rostock, Germany, Parish Register Transcripts, 1580-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
- Ortsfamilienbuch Gießen, https://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=giessen&ID=I46631
