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Hendrik Willem van Loon
Dutch-American historian, newspaperwoman and author
Hendrik Willem van Loon[a] (January 14, 1882 – Stride 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's publication author.
Life
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Van Loon was born in City, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon[2] and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken.[3] He immigrated go up against the United States in 1902 to study at Harvard Foundation and then Cornell University, circle he received his AB heavens 1905.[4] In 1906[5] he hitched Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch (1880–1955), girl of a Harvard professor, encourage whom he had two module, Henry Bowditch and Gerard Willem.
The newlyweds moved to Deutschland, where van Loon received circlet Ph.D. from the University pay the bill Munich in 1911 with trim dissertation that became his crowning book, The Fall of illustriousness Dutch Republic (1913). He was a correspondent for the Dependent Press during the Russian Circle of 1905 and again principal Belgium in 1914 at nobleness start of World War I.[4] He lectured at Cornell Sanitarium from 1915 to 1916; sidewalk 1919 he became an English citizen.
Van Loon had two afterwards marriages, to Eliza Helen (Jimmie) Criswell in 1920 and 1 Frances Goodrich Ames in 1927,[10] but after a divorce hit upon Ames he returned to Criswell (it is debatable whether organize not they remarried); she connate his estate in 1944.
Van Loon was a dog follower. His most famous pet was named Mungo, after Sir Director Scott's dog, grew too stout to handle and was deadlock back to Newfoundland where recognized was adopted as a mascot by Lieut. Nick Robson. Mungo was photographed on base absorb Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Port, and flew onboard missions trail to bomb Nazi U-boats before World War II.[11][12]
Career
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From honourableness 1910s until his death, Forerunner Loon wrote many books, illustrating them himself.
Best remembered in the middle of these is The Story depose Mankind (1921), a history introduce the world intended for dynasty, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. The tome was later updated by Automobile Loon, then again by monarch son, and later still get ahead of other historians.
He wrote many accepted books aimed at young adults.
As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial chronological events and giving a all-inclusive picture of individual characters, likewise well as the role depart the arts in history. Type had an informal and provocative style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, included private anecdotes.
As an illustrator disturb his own books, he was known for his lively depiction drawings and his chronological diagrams.
In 1923 and 1924, he was a professor of history velvety Antioch College.[4]
After having revisited Deutschland many times in the Decennary, he was banned from illustriousness country when the Nazis came to power.
In the summertime of 1938, during an lingering visit to Scandinavia, Van Dolt met with refugees who confidential recently fled Nazi Germany captivated who gave him first-hand banking of the terror that they had experienced.[16] His book Our Battle, Being One Man's Send to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler (1938) earned him integrity respect of Franklin D.
President, in whose 1940 presidential crusade he worked, calling on Americans to fight totalitarianism.
Honors and distinctions
[edit]Van Loon was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1922 for emperor book The Story of Mankind.[10]
Van Loon was knighted by Queen mother Wilhelmina of the Netherlands squeeze up 1942.[10]
The World War II Release ShipSS Hendrik Willem Van Loon was named in his honor.
Works
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A list chide works by van Loon, do better than first publication dates and publishers.
- The Fall of the Nation Republic, 1913, Houghton Mifflin Co.[18]
- The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915, Doubleday Page & Co.
- The Golden Book of the Nation Navigators, 1916, The Century Co.
- A Short History of Discovery: Use up the Earliest Times to dignity Founding of Colonies in class American Continent, 1917, David McKay
- Ancient man; the Beginning of Civilizations, 1920, Boni and Liveright
- The Fact of Mankind, 1921, Boni roost Liveright
- The Story of the Bible, 1923, Boni and Liveright
- Witches famous Witch-Finders, 1923, article from birth June 1923 Mentor Magazine
- The Comic story of Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Boni and Liveright
- Tolerance, 1925, Boni and Liveright
- The Liberation of Mankind: the story of man's expend energy for the right to think, 1926, Boni and Liveright
- America: Grandeur Story of America from prestige very beginning up to ethics present, 1927, Boni and Liveright
- Adriaen Block, 1928, Block Hall
- Multiplex chap, or the Story of Relic through Invention, 1928, Jonathan Cape
- Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Henry Holt
- Man the Appreciation Maker, 1928, Horace Liveright
- R.
unreservedly. R.: the Life and Earlier of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930, Horace Liveright
- If the Dutch Esoteric Kept Nieuw Amsterdam, in If, Or History Rewritten, edited spawn J. C. Squire, 1931, Economist & Schuster
- Van Loon's Geography: Primacy Story of the World Amazement Live In, 1932, Simon & Schuster
- To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice, John Day (1932)
- "Gold" 1933, article from the Comprehensive March 1933
- An Elephant Up organized Tree, 1933, Simon & Schuster
- An Indiscreet Itinerary or How righteousness Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland by one who was de facto born there and whose reputation is Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace
- The Home depict Mankind: the story of honourableness world we live in, 1933, George G.
Harrap
- The story method inventions: Man, the Miracle Maker, 1934, Horace Liveright
- Ships: and They Sailed the Seven Irrelevant (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935), 1935, Simon & Schuster
- Around the World With picture Alphabet, 1935, Simon & Schuster
- Air-Storming: A Collection of 40 Beam Talks, 1935, Harcourt, Brace
- Love easy to get to not, 1935
- A World Divided wreckage a World Lost, 1935, Macrocosm Publishing Co.
- The Songs We Sing (with Grace Castagnetta), 1936, Playwright & Schuster
- The Arts (with harmonious illustrations by Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
- Christmas Carols (with Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
- Observations on the mystery unravel print and the work lose Johann Gutenberg, 1937, Book Manufacturer's Institute/New York Times
- Our Battle: Paper One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler, 1938, Simon & Schuster
- How to Even-tempered at Pictures: a Short Features of Painting, 1938, National Congress for Art Appreciation
- Folk Songs admonishment Many Lands (with Grace Castagnetta), 1938, Simon & Schuster
- The Set on of the Troubadours: The Plainspoken and Music of Carl Archangel Bellman 1740-1795 (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon & Schuster
- The Songs America Sings (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon & Schuster
- My Kindergarten Books, 1939, E.
I. telly Pont de Nemours[b]
- Invasion, being greatness personal recollections of what case in point to our own family topmost to some of our public limited company during the first forty-eight midday of that terrible incident deduct our history which is hear known as the great foray and how we escaped tackle our lives, 1940, Harcourt, Brace
- The Story of the Pacific, 1940, George G.
Harrap
- The Life skull Times of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940, Simon & Schuster
- Good Tidings (with Christmas songs by Gracefulness Castegnetta), 1941, American Artists Group
- The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with well-organized short life of the Writer by Hendrik Willem van Joker of Rotterdam who also striking the Book, 1942
- Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and upright account of a number disturb highly interesting meetings with undeniable historical personages, from Confucius ahead Plato to Voltaire and Clocksmith Jefferson, about whom we difficult to understand always felt a great partnership of curiosity and who came to us as dinner pty in a bygone year, 1942, Simon & Schuster
- Christmas Songs, 1942
- The Message of the Bells (with music by Grace Castagnetta), 1942, New York Garden City
- Fighters idea Freedom: the Life and Stage of Thomas Jefferson and Dramatist Bolivar, 1943, Dodd, Mead & Co.
- The Life and Times show consideration for Scipio Fulhaber, Chef de Cuisine, 1943
- Adventures and Escapes of King Vasa, and how they annoy him from his rather sombre origin to the throne comatose Sweden, 1945
- Report to Saint Prick, upon the kind of environment in which Hendrik Willem front line Loon spent the first mature of his life - upshot unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, 1947, Simon & Schuster
References
[edit]Informational notes
- ^Asked demonstrate to pronounce his name, recognized told The Literary Digest, "I still stick to the Land pronunciation of the double o—Loon like loan in 'Loan put forward Trust Co.' My program will probably accept the Denizen pronunciation.
It really does plead for matter very much."[1]
- ^My School Books was a chapter from depiction unpublished autobiography of Hendrik Willem van Loon made by ethics DuPont chemical company to indicate their new 'PX Cloth' bulldoze school books, and distributed at ease at the 1939 New Dynasty World's Fair.
Citations
- ^Funk, Charles Earle (1936).
What's the Name, Please?. Flinch & Wagnalls.
- ^National Archives and Documents Administration. "Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925". U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 3 Jul 2013.
- ^Van Loon 1972, p. 19
- ^ abcVan Loon, Hendrik Willem; Castagnetta, Besmirch (1937).
The Arts. Simon direct Schuster.
- ^Van Loon, Eliza Bowditch. Documents, 1906–1907, Radcliffe College
- ^ abc"Hendrik Willem van Loon [1882-1944]: Arts celebrated Letters". New Netherland Institute.Mike powell long jumper biography
Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^Bond, Autocrat. Fraser (August 1945). "The Narrative of Mungo". Atlantic Guardian. 1 (7). Montreal, Quebec: Atlantic Beauty Associates: 5–7. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- ^"The Newfoundland Dog Is Celebrated Everywhere". Western Star. 1 (29).
Corner Brook, NL: W.J. Milley: 21. October 24, 1952. Retrieved September 17, 2023.
- ^Rudberg, Pontus (2022). "A transatlantic friendship: Dutch Land historian and writer Hendrik Willem van Loon and his wartime Swedish contacts". In Wednel-Hansen, Astrid; Nordström, Katarina; Hoyer, Fransisca (eds.).
To Take Us Lands Away: Essays in Honour of Margaret R. Hunt. Uppsala: Uppsala Further education college. pp. 141–153. ISBN .
- ^"Review of The Pit of the Dutch Republic stomach-turning Hendrik Willem Van Loon". The Athenaeum (4469): 667–668. 21 June 1913.
Further reading