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Victor D'Hondt

1841 - 1902

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Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (Dutch: [ˈvɪktɔr ˈtɔnt]; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales. A modified D'Hondt system is used for elections to the London Assembly and the Scottish Parliament. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor D'Hondt is the 204th most popular mathematician (up from 209th in 2019), the 147th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 161st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Victor D'Hondt ranks 204 out of 1,004. Before him are James Gregory, Lewis Fry Richardson, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Ernst Schröder, Tatyana Afanasyeva, and Conon of Samos. After him are André Weil, Ibn Sahl, Arthur Cayley, Maria Reiche, Henry Briggs, and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Victor D'Hondt ranks 23. Before him are Armand Fallières, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Ferdinand Buisson, Armand Guillaumin, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Ernst Schröder. After him are Clément Ader, Hermann Carl Vogel, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, Louis Le Prince, Philipp Mainländer, and Ahmed ‘Urabi. Among people deceased in 1902, Victor D'Hondt ranks 14. Before him are Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Ion Ivanovici, and Ernst Schröder. After him are James Tissot, Henryk Siemiradzki, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Frederick Abel.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 147 out of 1,190. Before him are Charles Michel (1975), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Petrus Plancius (1552), Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (1254), Marguerite Porete (1250), and Chantal Mouffe (1943). After him are Louis II, Count of Flanders (1330), Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1673), Pierre De Geyter (1848), Henry I, Duke of Brabant (1165), and Bartholomeus Spranger (1546).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Belgium

Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 2. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548). After him are Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Pierre Deligne (1944), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Ingrid Daubechies (1954), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), David Ruelle (1935), Jean Bourgain (1954), and Elias M. Stein (1931).

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