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Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882–1944)

Autor de La Historia de la humanidad

70+ Obras 3,873 Miembros 84 Reseñas 4 Preferidas

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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

La Historia de la humanidad (1997) 1,577 copias
Las Artes (1777) 492 copias
Van Loon's Lives (1942) 363 copias
The Life and Times of Rembrandt (1777) — Autor — 214 copias
The Story of the Bible (1923) 156 copias
America (1927) 127 copias
The Story of the Pacific (1940) 28 copias
Report to Saint Peter (1947) 22 copias
Christmas Carols (1937) 13 copias
The Message of the Bells (1940) 12 copias
An Indiscreet Itinerary (1933) 11 copias
An Elephant Up a Tree (1933) 10 copias
My School Books (1939) 9 copias
The Songs America Sings (1939) 9 copias
Invasion (1940) 9 copias
The Romance of Discovery (1917) 7 copias
Our Cornell (1939) 3 copias
Multiplex Man 1 copia
La geografia 1 copia
Detroit Red Wings (2014) 1 copia

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Family Treasury of Great Biographies Volume 01 (1970) — Autor — 67 copias
If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
The Story of Mankind [1957 film] (1975) — Original book — 10 copias

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Qué es arte, el arte en Egipto, en el periodo prehelénico, en los griegos hasta Strauss, Brahms y Debussy.
 
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