Georges Hostelet

Georges Hostelet (* 1875 in Chimay, Belgium, † 1960) was a Belgian chemical engineer, statisticians, social scientist and philosopher.

Hostelet studied engineering at the Royal Belgian Military School and received his doctorate in 1905 in physics and chemistry at the University of Liège. In the same year he wrote a book on electrochemistry and began to work as an industrial chemist. He also came into contact with Ernest Solvay.

In October 1915 he was sentenced in escape aid trial of Edith Cavell by a German court to five years in prison, but returned in 1917 back to Belgium.

In 1925 he was involved in the establishment of social science at Cairo University as part of a Franco-Belgian delegation. In 1932 he became a member of the Institut International de Statistique La Haye. He organized in the 1930s, the philosophy of science conferences for the French Philosophical Society. This resulted in books on statistics and philosophy of science, and because of his teaching at the Kolonialunviersität in Antwerp ( to 1947 ) resulted in a book about the colonization of the Congo.

He participated in several Solvay conferences, including at the first 1911.