Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944)
Autor/a de The Story of Mankind
Sobre l'autor
Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on January 14, 1882. He immigrated to the United States in 1902 and attended Cornell University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1905. After graduating, he became a news correspondent for the Associated Press. He reported from mostra'n més Russia on the Russian Revolution in 1905 and from Belgium during World War I in 1914. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911. His dissertation, The Fall of the Dutch Republic, was published as a book in 1913. He lectured at Cornell University on European History from 1915-1917 and served as the Department Head of Social Sciences at Antioch College, Ohio from 1921-1922. He was an author, historian, and illustrator. His wrote about 40 books during his lifetime including The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, Report to Saint Peter, and The Story of Mankind, which received the Newberry Medal in 1922. During World War II, he broadcast speeches to the Netherlands. For his contributions during the war, Queen Wilhelmina, the Dutch queen, knighted him in 1942. He died on March 11, 1944 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Hendrik Willem van Loon
A Short History of Discovery: From the Earliest Times to the Founding of Colonies in the American Continent (2007) 9 exemplars
The Story of Wilbur the Hat 8 exemplars
The NBC Symphony Orchestra 3 exemplars
Adriaen Block. Skipper, Trader, Explorer 2 exemplars
The Life and Times of Scipio Fuhlhaber 1 exemplars
Hendrik Van Loon's Wide World Game 1 exemplars
Short History of Discovery 1 exemplars
The Life and Times of Rembrandt [abridged] 1 exemplars
Multiplex Man 1 exemplars
THE STORY OF MANKIND by Hendrik - Annotated 1 exemplars
Istoria omenirii 1 exemplars
Folk Songs of Many Lands 1 exemplars
Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh 1 exemplars
La geografia 1 exemplars
Man the Miracle Worker 1 exemplars
Newbery Award Fictions 1 exemplars
A Short Wave Journey of Discovery 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Data de naixement
- 1882-01-14
- Data de defunció
- 1944-03-11
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Netherlands (birth)
USA (naturalized 1919) - Lloc de naixement
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Lloc de defunció
- Old Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Causa de la mort
- heart valve collapse
- Llocs de residència
- Netherlands
Germany
Ithaca, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Washington DC, USA
Moscow, Russia (mostra-les totes 14)
Warsaw, Poland
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
London, England, UK
Veere, Zeeland, Niederlande
Connecticut, USA - Educació
- Harvard University
Cornell University (AB|1905)
University of Munich (Ph.D|1911) - Professions
- journalist
professor
historian - Organitzacions
- Associated Press
Baltimore Sun
NBC
Greenwich Time
Antioch College - Premis i honors
- Newbery Award (1922)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1938)
Knighthood (Netherland, 1942)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Sonlight Books (1)
Newbery Adjacent (10)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 70
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 3,873
- Popularitat
- #6,546
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 84
- ISBN
- 185
- Llengües
- 14
- Preferit
- 4