Victor D’Hondt[1] (20 November 1841 - 30 May
1901) was a Belgian lawyer, professor of civil law at Ghent University, and mathematician. 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 Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Finland, Israel, Japan,
the Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
Ireland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and
Wales.
His living relatives are a long line of dentists, including Dennis and Eric D'Hondt who reside in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Notes
- ^ D'Hondt's last name is often misspelled as d’Hondt.
Confusion may arrive when reading Dutch articles on D'Hondt, since in Dutch, when using the full name one should write: Victor
d'Hondt (with a small d), while the surname all by itself would be D'Hondt (with a capital D). However, in Flemish it is always
capitalized, hence: Victor D'Hondt.
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