Background
Ehrenberg was born in Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick.
university professor jurist-consultant
Ehrenberg was born in Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick.
He gave lectures at Universities of Göttingen (since 1877), Rostock (1882), again Göttingen (1888), Leipzig (1911–1922). Ehrenberg married Elise Marie A. Helene von Jhering (1852-1920), daughter of the legal historian Rudolf von Jhering (1828–1892). Ehrenberg died in Göttingen on March 10, 1929.
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.