Victor Ehrenberg (Jurist)

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

Life

Victor Ehrenberg was a son of the Jewish couple Philip Samuel Ehrenberg and Julie Fischel. After attending high school in Wolfenbüttel from 1862 to 1871 he studied in Göttingen, Leipzig, Heidelberg, Freiburg and Göttingen turn jurisprudence, where he had to interrupt his studies due to illness and staying for a year for rehabilitation in Italy.

1876 ​​Ehrenberg received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen with a thesis on " The free servants in the Frankish Empire ". After einsemestrigem stay in Strasbourg, where he made his habilitation thesis to the feudal system ( " commendation and homage " ), he habilitated in 1877 again in Göttingen. As a lecturer he he lectured about special areas of commercial law and of German private law. In 1882 he married Helene von Jhering, the daughter of the most important at that time in Göttingen legal historian and civil law expert Rudolf von Jhering, and converted to Christianity. From 1882 to 1887 Ehrenberg was in Rostock Associate Professor of the Germanic subjects, the Commercial Law and the Mecklenburg private law. He also conducted research on insurance law. In 1887 he was recalled to the University of Göttingen. In 1911 he accepted a call to Leipzig, where he remained until his retirement in 1922. Then he returned to Göttingen where he died on 9 March 1929 at the age of 78 years. Victor Ehrenberg was the father of Rudolf Ehrenberg and the father of the Göttingen physicist Max Born. Ehrenberg was also the Schwiegerurgroßvater the Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.

Work

Ehrenberg is considered the "father of insurance science." Besides a large number of essays for this was the band " Insurance Law " (1893 ) in Handbook of bindings systematic importance. In 1885 he founded in Göttingen the "Seminar for Insurance Science ," the first of its kind in Germany. Ehrenberg was decisive part in the work for Insurance Supervision Law and the Insurance Contract Act, where he worked for Empire judicial authority as a consultant. In 1900 he was co-founder of the Association for insurance. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Reich Supervisory Office for Insurance. The second major activity was a comprehensive "Handbook of commercial law ." In Leipzig he put this with his contributions to the commercial register and the Kaufmann property the foundation. For the other volumes he practiced primarily of a coordination and editorial work.