Victor Ehrenberg (22 November 1891 – 25 January 1976) was a

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Life

Ehrenberg was born in Altona, Hamburg to a noted German Jewish family. He was the younger brother of

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and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg, and a nephew of economist Richard Ehrenberg.G.V.R. Born, F.R.S.
"The Wide-Ranging Family History of Max Born"
(PDF) The Royal Society. (2002) page 224. Retrieved November 28, 2010 Victor Ehrenberg served in the German Army on the Western Front during

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and was awarded the

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, 2nd Class for his combat service. Ehrenberg was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer (1891–1964), a daughter of Siegfried Sommer and Helene Sommer ( High Court Judge,

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). He was the father of Geoffrey and Lewis Elton, and grandfather of

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. He died, aged 84, in

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. A bequest made in his will to the

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funds the Grote prize, an academic prize for outstanding scholarship in the field of Ancient History.https://london.ac.uk/about-us/how-university-run/trust-funds/history-trust-funds#ehrenberg-prize The University of London, Awards and Prizes. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

Works

* ''Ost und West. Studien zur geschichtlichen Problematik der Antike''. Brno 1935. * ''Alexander and the Greeks''. Blackwell, Oxford 1938. * '' The people of Aristophanes''. Blackwell, Oxford 1943. ** Deutsche Ausgabe: ''Aristophanes und das Volk von Athen. Eine Soziologie der altattischen Komödie''. Artemis, Zürich und Stuttgart 1968. * ''Der Staat der Griechen''. 2., expanded edition . Artemis, Zürich und Stuttgart 1965. * ''Polis und Imperium. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte''. Hrsg. v. K. F. Stroheker und A.J. Graham. Artemis, Zürich und Stuttgart 1965. * ''From Solon to Socrates. Greek history and civilization during the sixth and fifth centuries B. C.'' Methuen, London 1968 und Nachdrucke,

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* 1891 births 1976 deaths German classical scholars German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German historians People from Altona, Hamburg Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom {{germany-historian-stub Ehrenberg family