Emanuel Lodewijk Elte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emanuel Lodewijk Elte

mathematician

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1881

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 09-Apr-1943

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Emanuel Lodewijk Elte (16 March 1881 in Amsterdam – 9 April 1943 in Sobibór) was a Dutch mathematician.
He is noted for discovering and classifying semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. Elte's father Hartog Elte was headmaster of a school in Amsterdam.
Emanuel Elte married Rebecca Stork in 1912 in Amsterdam, when he was a teacher at a high school in that city.
By 1943 the family lived in Haarlem.
When on January 30 of that year a German officer was shot in that town, in reprisal a hundred inhabitants of Haarlem were transported to the Camp Vught, including Elte and his family.
As Jews, he and his wife were further deported to Sobibór, where they both died, while his two children died at Auschwitz.