Rehuel Lobatto

[1] He studied mathematics under Jean Henri van Swinden at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam, earning his BA in 1812; [3] and then with Adolphe Quetelet (coediting a volume of "Correspondance Mathématique et Physique").

Working for the Dutch government - initially for the Ministry of the Interior - he became secretary of a statistical commission in 1831.

[4] From 1826 till 1849 he was editor of the "Jaarboekje van Lobatto", as those editions of the official annual of statistics came to be known.

In 1842 he was appointed Professor [5] of Higher Mathematics [6] at the Polytechnical School of Delft, remaining there until his final years.

[6] The Order of the Netherlands Lion was conferred upon him; he received his Doctoral degree honoris causa from Groningen University.