Hendrik Willem van Loon – Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre
Hendrik Willem van Loon | |
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Nascimento | 14 de janeiro de 1882 |
Morte | 11 de março de 1944 (62 anos) |
Nacionalidade | ![]() |
Ocupação | Historiador e jornalista |
Prémios | Medalha Newbery 1922 |
Hendrik Willem van Loon (14 de janeiro de 1882 - 11 de março de 1944) foi um historiador e jornalista neerlandês.
Carreira
[editar | editar código-fonte]Foi reconhecido no mundo inteiro pelos muitos livros que escreveu e ilustrou.[1] Dentre eles, podemos mencionar The Story of America e The Story of the Bible (A História da Bíblia, traduzido no Brasil por Monteiro Lobato), além de A História da Humanidade. Van Loon foi professor do Antioch College e deu aulas em Harvard, em Cornell e na Universidade de Munique.[2][3]
Trabalhos
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Uma lista de obras de van Loon, com datas de primeira publicação e editores.
- The Fall of the Dutch Republic, 1913, Houghton Mifflin Co.
- The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1915, Doubleday Page & Co.
- The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators, 1916, The Century Co.
- A Short History of Discovery: From the Earliest Times to the Founding of Colonies in the American Continent, 1917, David McKay
- Ancient man; the Beginning of Civilizations, 1920, Boni and Liveright
- The Story of Mankind, 1921, Boni and Liveright
- The Story of the Bible, 1923, Boni and Liveright
- Witches and Witch-Finders, 1923, article from the June 1923 Mentor Magazine
- The Story of Wilbur the Hat, 1925, Boni and Liveright
- Tolerance, 1925, Boni and Liveright
- The Liberation of Mankind: the story of man's struggle for the right to think, 1926, Boni and Liveright
- America: The Story of America from the very beginning up to the present, 1927, Boni and Liveright
- Adriaen Block, 1928, Block Hall
- Multiplex man, or the Story of Survival through Invention, 1928, Jonathan Cape
- Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant, 1928, Henry Holt
- Man the Miracle Maker, 1928, Horace Liveright
- R. v. R.: the Life and Times of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1930, Horace Liveright
- If the Dutch Had Kept Nieuw Amsterdam, in If, Or History Rewritten, editado por J. C. Squire, 1931, Simon & Schuster
- Van Loon's Geography: The Story of the World We Live In, 1932, Simon & Schuster
- To Have or to Be—Take Your Choice, John Day (1932)
- "Gold" 1933, artigo da Marcha Cosmopolita 1933
- An Elephant Up a Tree, 1933, Simon & Schuster
- An Indiscreet Itinerary or How the Unconventional Traveler Should See Holland by one who was actually born there and whose name is Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1933, Harcourt, Brace
- The Home of Mankind: the story of the world we live in, 1933, George G. Harrap
- The story of inventions: Man, the Miracle Maker, 1934, Horace Liveright
- Ships: and How They Sailed the Seven Seas (5000 B.C.-A.D.1935), 1935, Simon & Schuster
- Around the World With the Alphabet, 1935, Simon & Schuster
- Air-Storming: A Collection of 40 Radio Talks, 1935, Harcourt, Brace
- Love me not, 1935
- A World Divided is a World Lost, 1935, Cosmos Publishing Co.
- The Songs We Sing (com Grace Castagnetta), 1936, Simon & Schuster
- The Arts (com ilustrações musicais de Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
- Christmas Carols (com Grace Castagnetta), 1937, Simon & Schuster
- Observations on the mystery of print and the work of Johann Gutenberg, 1937, Book Manufacturer's Institute/New York Times
- Our Battle: Being One Man's Answer to "My Battle" by Adolf Hitler, 1938, Simon & Schuster
- How to Look at Pictures: a Short History of Painting, 1938, National Committee for Art Appreciation
- Folk Songs of Many Lands (with Grace Castagnetta), 1938, Simon & Schuster
- The Last of the Troubadours: The Life and Music of Carl Michael Bellman 1740-1795 (com Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon & Schuster
- The Songs America Sings (with Grace Castagnetta), 1939, Simon & Schuster
- My School Books, 1939, E. I. du Pont de Nemours
- Invasion, being the personal recollections of what happened to our own family and to some of our friends during the first forty-eight hours of that terrible incident in our history which is now known as the great invasion and how we escaped with our lives, 1940, Harcourt, Brace
- The Story of the Pacific, 1940, George G. Harrap
- The Life and Times of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1940, Simon & Schuster
- Good Tidings (with Christmas songs by Grace Castegnetta), 1941, American Artists Group
- The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, with a short life of the Author by Hendrik Willem van Loon of Rotterdam who also illustrated the Book, 1942
- Van Loon's Lives: Being a true and faithful account of a number of highly interesting meetings with certain historical personages, from Confucius and Plato to Voltaire and Thomas Jefferson, about whom we had always felt a great deal of curiosity and who came to us as dinner guests in a bygone year, 1942, Simon & Schuster
- Christmas Songs, 1942
- The Message of the Bells (com música de Grace Castagnetta), 1942, New York Garden City
- Fighters for Freedom: the Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson and Simon Bolivar, 1943, Dodd, Mead & Co.
- The Life and Times of Scipio Fulhaber, Chef de Cuisine, 1943
- Adventures and Escapes of Gustavus Vasa, and how they carried him from his rather obscure origin to the throne of Sweden, 1945
- Report to Saint Peter, upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life - uma autobiografia inacabada, publicada postumamente, 1947, Simon & Schuster
Referências
- ↑ «The arts» (em eng). Internet Archive. Consultado em 22 de dezembro de 2021
- ↑ Van Loon, Gerard Willem (1972). The story of Hendrik Willem van Loon. Lippincott. ISBN 0-397-00844-9
- ↑ Van Minnen, Cornelis (2005). Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-4039-7049-1
Ligações externas
[editar | editar código-fonte]- Biography from the Universalist Historical Society (UUHS)
- Obras de Hendrik Willem Van Loon (em inglês) no Projeto Gutenberg
- Obras de ou sobre Hendrik Willem van Loon no Internet Archive
- Van Loon, o Ilustrador, Exposição Digital, Ohio State University
- Hendrik Willem van Loon (em inglês) no Find a Grave