Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
Van Loon, Hendrik Willem( 1882–1944),born in Holland, came to the U.S. as a young man and graduated from Cornell (1905). He served as a foreign correspondent and attended the University of Munich (Ph.D., 1911). A Short History of Discovery (1918) was the first of the books that won him a reputation as a popularizer of encyclopedic subjects. His surveys, marked by a genially familiar style that is reflected in his own sketchy illustrations, include Ancient Man (1920); The Story of Mankind (1921); The Story of the Bible (1923); Tolerance (1925), a history of the rise of religious tolerance; America (1927); Man, the Miracle Maker (1928); Van Loon's Geography (1932); Ships & How They Sailed the Seven Seas (1935); The Arts (1937); and The Story of the Pacific (1940). His other works include Life and Times of Pieter Stuyvesant (1928); R. v. R. (1930), a...
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