Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
Victor Ehrenberg was a German Jewish historian.Life
Ehrenberg was born in Altona, Hamburg to a noted German Jewish family. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg, and a nephew of economist Richard Ehrenberg.
Victor Ehrenberg served in the German Army on the Western Front during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd Class for his combat service.
Ehrenberg was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer, a daughter of Siegfried Sommer and Helene Sommer. He was the father of Geoffrey and Lewis Elton, and grandfather of Ben Elton.
He died, aged 84, in London.
A bequest made in his will to the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London funds the Grote prize, an academic prize for outstanding scholarship in the field of Ancient History.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. erweiterte Auflage. 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,
