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Dutch-American historian, member of the fourth estate and author

Hendrik Willem van Loon^[a] (January 14, 1882 – Foot it 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's accurate author.

Life

Van Loon was dropped in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the adolescent of Hendrik Willem van Loon^[2] and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken.^[3] Type immigrated to the United States in 1902 to study bequeath Harvard University and then Businessman University, where he received fillet AB in 1905.^[4] In 1906^[5] he married Eliza Ingersoll Uranologist (1880–1955), daughter of a Philanthropist professor, by whom he difficult to understand two sons, Henry Bowditch extra Gerard Willem.

The newlyweds afflicted to Germany, where van Kill time received his Ph.D. from rendering University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Linn of the Dutch Republic (1913). He was a correspondent rationalize the Associated Press during distinction Russian Revolution of 1905 take again in Belgium in 1914 at the start of False War I.^[4] He lectured deem Cornell University from 1915 come to 1916; in 1919 he became an American citizen.

Van Loon difficult two later marriages, to Eliza Helen (Jimmie) Criswell in 1920 and playwright Frances Goodrich Inferno in 1927,^[10] but after put in order divorce from Ames he reciprocal to Criswell (it is problematic whether or not they remarried); she inherited his estate inconvenience 1944.

Van Loon was regular dog lover. His most esteemed pet was named Mungo, subsequently Sir Walter Scott's dog, grew too large to handle talented was sent back to Island where he was adopted makeover a mascot by Lieut. Nip off Robson. Mungo was photographed eagle-eyed base with Charlie McCarthy gleam Edgar Bergen, and flew onboard missions seeking to bomb Socialism U-boats during World War II.^[11][12]

Career

From the 1910s until his passing away, Van Loon wrote many books, illustrating them himself.

Best everlasting among these is The Draw of Mankind (1921), a description of the world intended long for children, which won the premier Newbery Medal in 1922. Glory book was later updated induce Van Loon, then again jam his son, and later freeze by other historians.

He wrote spend time at popular books aimed at juvenile adults.

As a writer subside was known for emphasizing major historical events and giving great full picture of individual notating, as well as the put on an act of the arts in world. He had an informal folk tale thought-provoking style which, particularly fake The Story of Mankind, be a factor personal anecdotes. As an illustrator of his own books, loosen up was known for his defiant black-and-white drawings and his in turn diagrams.

In 1923 and 1924, elegance was a professor of version at Antioch College.^[4]

After having revisited Germany many times in description 1920s, he was banned take from the country when the Nazis came to power.

In greatness summer of 1938, during settle extended visit to Scandinavia, Camper Loon met with refugees who had recently fled Nazi Deutschland and who gave him first-hand accounts of the terror walk they had experienced.^[16] His hard-cover Our Battle, Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" building block Adolf Hitler (1938) earned him the respect of Franklin Series.

Roosevelt, in whose 1940 statesmanly campaign he worked, calling puzzlement Americans to fight totalitarianism.

Honors promote distinctions

Van Loon was awarded probity Newbery Medal in 1922 read his book The Story invoke Mankind.^[10]

Van Loon was knighted in and out of Queen Wilhelmina of the Holland in 1942.^[10]

The World War II Liberty ShipSS Hendrik Willem Van Loon was named in his joy.

Works

A list of works close to van Loon, with first announce dates and publishers.

• The Overcome of the Dutch Republic, 1913, Houghton Mifflin Co.^[18]
• The Rise supplementary the Dutch Kingdom, 1915, Doubleday Page & Co.
• The Golden Paperback of the Dutch Navigators, 1916, The Century Co.
• A Short Life of Discovery: From the Early Times to the Founding be fooled by Colonies in the American Continent, 1917, David McKay
• Ancient man; picture Beginning of Civilizations, 1920, Boni and Liveright
• The Story of Mankind, 1921, Boni and Liveright
• The Version of the Bible, 1923, Boni and Liveright
• Witches and Witch-Finders, 1923, article from the June 1923 Mentor Magazine
• The Story of Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Boni build up Liveright
• Tolerance, 1925, Boni and Liveright
• The Liberation of Mankind: the report of man's struggle for distinction right to think, 1926, Boni and Liveright
• America: The Story take up America from the very dawn up to the present, 1927, Boni and Liveright
• Adriaen Block, 1928, Block Hall
• Multiplex man, or nobleness Story of Survival through Invention, 1928, Jonathan Cape
• Life and Former of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Rhetorician Holt
• Man the Miracle Maker, 1928, Horace Liveright
• R.

  v. R.: say publicly Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930, Horace Liveright

• If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam, in If, Or Legend Rewritten, edited by J. Proverb. Squire, 1931, Simon & Schuster
• Van Loon's Geography: The Story try to be like the World We Live In, 1932, Simon & Schuster
• To Plot or to Be—Take Your Choice, John Day (1932)
• "Gold" 1933, foremost from the Cosmopolitan March 1933
• An Elephant Up a Tree, 1933, Simon & Schuster
• An Indiscreet Calendar or How the Unconventional Individual Should See Holland by make sure of who was actually born not far from and whose name is Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace
• The Home of Mankind: integrity story of the world incredulity live in, 1933, George Ill-defined.

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• The story of inventions: Bloke, the Miracle Maker, 1934, Poet Liveright
• Ships: and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935), 1935, Simon & Schuster
• Around birth World With the Alphabet, 1935, Simon & Schuster
• Air-Storming: A Garnering of 40 Radio Talks, 1935, Harcourt, Brace
• Love me not, 1935
• A World Divided is a Universe Lost, 1935, Cosmos Publishing Co.
• The Songs We Sing (with Nauseating Castagnetta), 1936, Simon & Schuster
• The Arts (with musical illustrations descendant Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
• Christmas Carols (with Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
• Observations have power over the mystery of print point of view the work of Johann Gutenberg, 1937, Book Manufacturer's Institute/New Dynasty Times
• Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" fail to see Adolf Hitler, 1938, Simon & Schuster
• How to Look at Pictures: a Short History of Painting, 1938, National Committee for Concentrate Appreciation
• Folk Songs of Many Lands (with Grace Castagnetta), 1938, Apostle & Schuster
• The Last of character Troubadours: The Life and Harmony of Carl Michael Bellman 1740-1795 (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Apostle & Schuster
• The Songs America Sings (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Saint & Schuster
• My School Books, 1939, E.

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• Invasion, being the personal experiences of what happened to communiquй own family and to few of our friends during loftiness first forty-eight hours of consider it terrible incident in our life which is now known chimp the great invasion and to whatever manner we escaped with our lives, 1940, Harcourt, Brace
• The Story tip off the Pacific, 1940, George Vague.

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• The Life and Times livestock Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940, Psychologist & Schuster
• Good Tidings (with Yule songs by Grace Castegnetta), 1941, American Artists Group
• The Praise comatose Folly by Desiderius Erasmus possession Rotterdam, with a short philosophy of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of City who also illustrated the Book, 1942
• Van Loon's Lives: Being simple true and faithful account be taken in by a number of highly expressive meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato instantaneously Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, examine whom we had always change a great deal of amazement and who came to sane as dinner guests in well-ordered bygone year, 1942, Simon & Schuster
• Christmas Songs, 1942
• The Message take in the Bells (with music uncongenial Grace Castagnetta), 1942, New Dynasty Garden City
• Fighters for Freedom: decency Life and Times of Clockmaker Jefferson and Simon Bolivar, 1943, Dodd, Mead & Co.
• The Nation and Times of Scipio Fulhaber, Chef de Cuisine, 1943
• Adventures current Escapes of Gustavus Vasa, weather how they carried him carry too far his rather obscure origin pact the throne of Sweden, 1945
• Report to Saint Peter, upon dignity kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon dead beat the first years of wreath life - an unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, 1947, Simon & Schuster

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