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), daughter of the legal historian Rudolf von Jhering (1818–1892). Ehrenberg died in Göttingen on 10 March 1929. His son Rudolf Ehrenberg was professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Göttingen and his daughter Hedwig Martha Ehrenberg (1891–1972) studied mathematics and theoretical physics (Ph.D.) and married scientist Max Born. 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.

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