According to Wikipedia, Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author. Life Van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. He immigrated to the United States in 1902 to study at Harvard University and then Cornell University, where he received his AB in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch , daughter of a Harvard professor, by whom he had two sons, Henry Bowditch and Gerard Willem. The newlyweds moved to Germany, where van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic . He was a correspondent for the Associated Press during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and again in Belgium in 1914 at the start of World War I. He lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1916; in 1919 he became an American citizen.
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Published Works
The arts of mankind (1938) (7)
Van Loon's geography : the story of the world (1932) (7)
The Fall of the Dutch Republic (4)
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 : A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands (2)
Multiplex man, or the story of survival through invention (2)
The liberation of Mankind : the story of man's struggle for the right to think (2)
My school books from the unpublished autobiography of Hendrik Willem van Loon (1939) (1)
Life and times of Pieter Stuyvesant (1)
Ships & how they sailed the seven seas (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1935) (1935) (1)
Our battle : being one man's answer to My battle by Adolf Hitler (1938) (0)
Adventures and escapes of Gustavus Vasa and how they carried him from his rather obscure origin to the Throne of sweden (1945) (0)
Air-storming : a collection of 40 radio talks (1935) (0)
The Story of America (1942) (0)
The story of Wilbur the hat : being a true account of the strange things which sometimes happen in a part of the world which does not exist (0)
Report to Saint Peter : upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life (1947) (0)
Life and times of Rembrandt, R. v. R. : originally published as "R. v. R., the life and times of Rembrandt van Rijn" (0)
Observations on the mystery of print and the work of Johann Gutenberg (1937) (0)
The story of mankind : including a new final chapter which brings the material up to the European war of 1939 (1939) (0)
The life and times of Simon Bolivar : this is the story of Simon Bolivar, liberator of Venezuela, the man who first of all had the vision of a United States for the whole of the American continent (1943) (0)
The golden book of the Dutch navigators (0)
Episodes from the story of mankind (0)
Adriaen Block : skipper, trader, explorer (0)
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