Ehrenberg, a German naturalist, born in Delitsch; intended for the Church; devoted himself to medical studies, and graduated in medicine in 1818; acquired great skill in the use of the microscope, and by means of it made important discoveries, particularly in the department of infusory animals; contributed largely to the literature of science (1795-1878).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ehkili * Ehrenbreitstein