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Negelev Yehuda (1911)

Personal data
SurnameNegelev
NameYehuda
Birth year1911
Birth month10
Birth day6
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Negelev Yehuda (Jehuda) (6 October 1911, Riga — after World War II) — educator.

In 1928 Yehuda Negelev graduated from the Primary and Secondary School of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Art and Knowledge and enrolled in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Latvia. In March 1935 he defended his diploma thesis and received a degree as a chemical engineer.

From the autumn of 1931, as a trainee teacher, he was admitted to teaching physics, chemistry, and mathematics at the Primary and Secondary School of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Art and Knowledge. In the autumn of 1940, according to the data of the Qualification Commission of the Ministry of Education, he received a certificate as a fully qualified teacher.

During the Second World War, he served in the Soviet Army.

Archival source:

Latvian State Historical Archive, Fond 1632, inventory 1, file 14795.