Maarten Rudelsheim
Flamingant
Died when: 47 years 138 days (568 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Maarten Rudelsheim (25 April 1873 in Amsterdam – 10 September 1920 in Antwerp) was 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 , 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.