Elze van den Ban | |
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 Elze van den Ban (around 1950) | |
| Born | Elizabeth Frederika van den Ban 18 October 1894 |
| Died | 25 December 1973 |
| Occupation(s) | civil engineer, urban planner |
Elizabeth Frederika van den Ban, known as Elze, (18 October 1894 - 25 December 1973)[1][2] was a Dutch urban planner and chief engineer of the Rijkswaterstaat (Department of Public Works) at Zuiderzee Works where she introduced curvatures rather than straight lines into the urban planning process of polders and dikes.[3] Van den Ban was the first woman from the Netherlands to graduate as a civil engineer in Delft, where she worked as a civil engineer.
- ^ BS Geboorte met Elizabeth Frederika van den Ban
- ^ Overlijden Algemeen Dagblad 28-12-1973
- ^ Ir E. F. van den Ban is met ingang van 1 September 1950 benoemd tot hoofdingenieur van de Dienst der Zuiderzeewerken voor het stedebouwkundig werk voor de nieuwe Zuiderzeepolders (hoofd van de sectie stedebouw)