Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon ( artist name Hendrik Willem Vanloon ) ( born January 14, 1882 in Rotterdam ( Holland ), † March 11, 1944 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Dutch- American writer, historian, journalist, artist and book illustrator.

Life

Originally from Rotterdam, van Loon had immigrated to the United States in 1902 and studied at Harvard and Cornell, before he went as a newspaper correspondent to Russia in 1905 and reported on the revolution. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch, a descendant of Nathaniel Bowditch, with whom he had two sons.

He obtained in 1911 in Munich doctoral degrees; from the scientific work was his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic (1913). During the beginning of the First World War, he filed a report from Belgium; From 1915 he taught history at Cornell. Here he was indeed very popular, but was sometimes regarded as unscientific and not suitable for the teaching profession.

In 1919 he became an American citizen in 1920, he married his second wife Eliza Helen Criswell, to which he returned later, after he had married in 1927 his third wife Frances Goodrich Ames.

He wrote numerous popular scientific works such as The Story of Mankind ( 1921) and The Story of the Bible ( 1923) as well as a fictional biography of Rembrandt.

Zuckmayer he was instrumental in its immigration during the period of the Third Reich, as this grateful as if it were a piece of me reported. Besides Zuckmayer he was many other emigrants, such as Heinrich Eduard Jacob, in a friendly wink. At this time he also worked for NBC and commented as Oom Henk current events. In 1942 he was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina to the peerage.

Works

  • The history of mankind ( translation: Gustav Schultze- beech forest of "The Story of Mankind" ). Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Publishing, 1924; 52 edition 1935.
  • The multiplied Man ( translation: Lizzi Rosenfeld of "Multiplex Man, or the story of survival through invention" ). Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Publishing, 1929 http://d-nb.info/361168683.
  • From Columbus to Coolidge: career of a part of the world ( translation: Gustav Schultze- beech forest of "The Story of America" ​​). Berlin:. Rudolf Mosse Publishing, 1929 edition under the title America: The novel of a country ( re-translation: Karl Danz ). Berlin: Verlag des printing house Tempelhof, 1949.
  • About The Real. Time image by Rembrandt van Rijn ( translation: Gustav Schultze- beech forest of "Life and times of Rembrandt Rijn "). Berlin:. Rudolf Mosse Publishing, 1931 A short version appeared as Rembrandt in the ribbon man who moved the world, publishing the best, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-87070-590-6. .
  • You and the Earth: A Geography for everyone ( translation: Alfred Ernst Johann of "Geography "). Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 1932.
  • The Pacific ( translation by Walter Jelen - Jelinek of "The Story of the Pacific ' ). Zurich: Pan -Verlag, 1947.
  • The big ones are not dumb (Translation: Edmund T. Kauer ). Vienna and Stuttgart: Humboldt -Verlag, 1952.
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