Victor Ehrenberg (historian)
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Victor Ehrenberg was a German
historian
. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg
and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg
.
He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer (1891–1964).
He is the father of Geoffrey and Lewis Elton
, and grandfather of Ben Elton
.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
historian
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
. He was the younger brother of Hans Ehrenberg
Hans Ehrenberg
Hans Philipp Ehrenberg was a German theologian. One of the co-founders of the Confessing Church, he was forced to emigrate to England because of his Jewish ancestry and his opposition to National Socialism....
and the nephew of the jurist Victor Ehrenberg
Victor Ehrenberg (jurist)
Victor Gabriel Ehrenberg was a German jurist.He is the uncle of historian Victor Ehrenberg, Geoffrey & Lewis Elton's great uncle and great-great uncle to Ben Elton....
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He was married to Eva Dorothea Ehrenberg, née Sommer (1891–1964).
He is the father of Geoffrey and Lewis Elton
Lewis Elton
Ludwig Richard Benjamin Elton is a German-born British physicist and researcher into education, specialising in higher education....
, and grandfather of Ben Elton
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, as a writer on such cult series as The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as also a successful stand-up comedian on stage and TV....
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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, ISBN 0-415-04024-8