Victor Ehrenberg (lawyer)

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Victor Ehrenberg (1926)

Victor Ehrenberg (born August 22, 1851 in Wolfenbüttel , † March 9, 1929 in Göttingen ) was a German legal scholar , one of the most important commercial lawyers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the founder of insurance science .

Life

Victor Ehrenberg was a son of the Jewish couple Philipp Samuel Ehrenberg and Julie Fischel.

After attending grammar school in Wolfenbüttel from 1862 to 1871, he studied law at the universities of Göttingen , Leipzig , Heidelberg , Freiburg and again Göttingen, interrupting his studies due to illness and spending a year in Italy for rehabilitation .

In 1876 Ehrenberg received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen with a thesis on The Free Servants in the Franconian Empire . After a one-semester stay at the University of Strasbourg , where he wrote his habilitation thesis on feudal affairs ( commendation and homage ), he completed his habilitation again in Göttingen in 1877. As a private lecturer, he gave lectures there on special areas of commercial law and German private law.

In 1882 he married Helene v. Jhering, the daughter of the most important Göttingen legal historian and civil lawyer at the time, Rudolf von Jhering , and converted to Christianity. From 1882 to 1887 Ehrenberg was a full professor in Rostock for German subjects, commercial law and Mecklenburg private law. In addition, he conducted research on insurance law. In 1887 he was called back to the University of Göttingen. In 1911 he accepted a call to Leipzig, where he stayed until his retirement in 1922. He then returned to Göttingen and died there on March 9, 1929 at the age of 78.

Victor Ehrenberg was the father of Rudolf Ehrenberg and the father-in-law of the Göttingen physicist Max Born . He was also the grandfather-in-law of Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John .

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Ehrenberg is considered the "father of insurance science". In addition to a large number of articles, the volume “Insurance Law” (1893) in Binding's systematic manual was of particular importance. In 1885 he founded the "Seminar for Insurance Science" in Göttingen, the first of its kind in Germany. Ehrenberg was significantly involved in the work on the Insurance Supervision Act and the Insurance Contract Act, where he worked as an advisor for the Reich Justice Authority. In 1900 he was a co-founder of the Insurance Association. He was a member of the advisory board of the Reich Insurance Supervisory Office. The second major area of ​​activity was a comprehensive “Handbook of Commercial Law”. In Leipzig he laid the foundation stone for this with his contributions to the commercial register and merchant status. For the other volumes, he was primarily responsible for coordinating and editing.

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SURNAME Ehrenberg, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1929
Place of death Goettingen