Maarten Rudelsheim

Maarten Rudelsheim

Maarten Rudelsheim (born in Amsterdam on 25 April 1873 - died in Antwerp on 10 September 1920) 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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Name	Rudelsheim, Maarten
Alternative names
Short description	flamingant
Date of birth	25 April 1873
Place of birth	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of death	10 September 1920
Place of death	Antwerp, Belgium