Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944)
Autor de La Historia de la humanidad
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Obras 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 copias
The Story of Wilbur the Hat 8 copias
The NBC Symphony Orchestra 3 copias
Short History of Discovery 1 copia
Multiplex Man 1 copia
Istoria omenirii 1 copia
Folk Songs of Many Lands 1 copia
Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh 1 copia
La geografia 1 copia
Man the Miracle Worker 1 copia
Newbery Award Fictions 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- van Loon, Hendrik Willem
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1882-01-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1944-03-11
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Netherlands (birth)
USA (naturalized 1919) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Old Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart valve collapse
- Lugares de residencia
- Netherlands
Germany
Ithaca, New York, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Washington DC, USA
Moscow, Russia (mostrar todos 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 - Educación
- Harvard University
Cornell University (AB|1905)
University of Munich (Ph.D|1911) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
professor
historian - Organizaciones
- Associated Press
Baltimore Sun
NBC
Greenwich Time
Antioch College - Premios y honores
- Newbery Award (1922)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1938)
Knighthood (Netherland, 1942)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Sonlight Books (1)
Newbery Adjacent (10)
Premios
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- Obras
- 70
- También por
- 8
- Miembros
- 3,873
- Popularidad
- #6,546
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 84
- ISBNs
- 185
- Idiomas
- 14
- Favorito
- 4