1841 - 1902
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (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, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor D'Hondt has received more than 47,300 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Victor D'Hondt is the 203rd most popular mathematician (up from 209th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 155th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Victor D'Hondt ranks 203 out of 828. Before him are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Thomas Abbt, Willem de Sitter, Jan Łukasiewicz, Georg von Peuerbach, and Joseph Petzval. After him are Emil Artin, Édouard Lucas, S. R. Ranganathan, Giovanni Ceva, Gilles de Roberval, and Theodorus of Cyrene.
1896 - 1980
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 197
1738 - 1766
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 198
1872 - 1934
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 199
1878 - 1956
HPI: 68.57
Rank: 200
1423 - 1461
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 201
1807 - 1891
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 202
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 203
1898 - 1962
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 204
1842 - 1891
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 205
1892 - 1972
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 206
1647 - 1734
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 207
1602 - 1675
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 208
465 BC - 398 BC
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 209
Among people born in 1841, Victor D'Hondt ranks 23. Before him are Armand Fallières, Clément Ader, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Ferdinand Buisson, and Armand Guillaumin. After him are Sam Loyd, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Annie Chapman, Julius von Payer, Louis Le Prince, and Ybyrai Altynsarin. Among people deceased in 1902, Victor D'Hondt ranks 14. Before him are Marie Henriette of Austria, James Tissot, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, Ion Ivanovici, and Albert of Saxony. After him are John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, Charles Dow, Jacint Verdaguer, Masaoka Shiki, and Albert Bierstadt.
1841 - 1931
HPI: 71.06
Rank: 17
1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 18
1841 - 1894
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 19
1841 - 1911
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 20
1841 - 1932
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 21
1841 - 1927
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 22
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 23
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 24
1841 - 1934
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 25
1841 - 1888
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 26
1841 - 1915
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 27
1841 - 1890
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 28
1841 - 1889
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 29
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 8
1836 - 1902
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 9
1840 - 1902
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 10
1822 - 1902
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 11
1845 - 1902
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1828 - 1902
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 13
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 14
1834 - 1902
HPI: 67.39
Rank: 15
1870 - 1902
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 16
1851 - 1902
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 17
1845 - 1902
HPI: 66.78
Rank: 18
1867 - 1902
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 19
1830 - 1902
HPI: 66.34
Rank: 20
Among people born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 168 out of 899. Before him are Wilfried Martens (1936), Johannes Tinctoris (1435), Jacob Le Maire (1585), Chantal Mouffe (1943), Paul Otlet (1868), and John I, Duke of Brabant (1252). After him are Victor Serge (1890), Elio Di Rupo (1951), Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant (1859), Barthélemy d'Eyck (1420), Pierre de la Rue (1460), and Alexander Agricola (1446).
1936 - 2013
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 162
1435 - 1511
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 163
1585 - 1616
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 164
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 165
1868 - 1944
HPI: 68.49
Rank: 166
1252 - 1294
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 167
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 168
1890 - 1947
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 169
1951 - Present
HPI: 68.35
Rank: 170
1859 - 1869
HPI: 68.33
Rank: 171
1420 - 1470
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 172
1460 - 1518
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 173
1446 - 1506
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 174
Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 2. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548). After him are Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Pierre Deligne (1944), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), Elias M. Stein (1931), Jean Bourgain (1954), and Jacques Tits (1930).
1548 - 1620
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 1
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 2
1814 - 1894
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 3
1804 - 1849
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 4
1944 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 5
1561 - 1615
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 6
1584 - 1667
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 7
1866 - 1962
HPI: 60.95
Rank: 8
1935 - Present
HPI: 59.98
Rank: 9
1931 - 2018
HPI: 59.84
Rank: 10
1954 - 2018
HPI: 59.56
Rank: 11
1930 - Present
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 12