Maarten Rudelsheim
Deceased Person
1873 – 1920
Who was Maarten Rudelsheim?
Maarten Rudelsheim is a flamingant of Jewish-Dutch descent.
Rudelsheim was born in the Netherlands, of a Jewish father and a Dutch mother. In 1885, the family came to Antwerp. Maarten Rudelsheim studied at Ghent University and became Doctor of German philology. In 1898, Maarten Rudelsheim was naturalized as a Belgian citizen. In 1900, he became assistant librarian in Antwerp. Like Louis Franck, Nico Gunzburg and Lon Landau, Maarten Rudelsheim was one of a number of Jewish flamingants who were engaged in the Flemish movement. He devoted himself to the Dutchification of Ghent University, then still a French-speaking university in a Flemish city. After the war, Rudelsheim was condemned to ten years' imprisonment for involvement in activism during the war. He died in Antwerp prison.
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- Born
- Apr 25, 1873
- Education
- Ghent University
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Sep 10, 1920
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on July 23, 2013
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