Papers, 1906-1907

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Papers, 1906-1907

Correspondence, photographs, etc., of Eliza Bowditch Van Loon, member of the Bowditch family of Boston, and wife of writer-journalist Hendrik Willem van Loon.

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Van Loon, Gerard Willem, 1911-

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Gerard Willem Van Loon, son of the writer Hendrik Willem Van Loon, was a dancer from 1932 until the end of World War II. He made his debut at the Salle Rudolf Steiner in Paris and was a member of the Humphrey-Weidman Company. From the guide to the Gerard Willem Van Loon papers, 1947-1949, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) From the guide to the Gerard Willem Van Loon papers, 1932-1968, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division...

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944

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Hendrik Willem van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Holland on January 14, 1882. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch and began working for the Associated Press in New York City, Washington, D.C., Moscow, and Warsaw. His son Henry Bowditch van Loon was born on June 22, 1907, and Gerard Willem van Loon on January 16, 1911. Hendrik van Loon received his Ph.D. from the University of Munich in 1911, and in 1913 his book THE FALL OF THE DUTCH REPU...

Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...

Eliza Bowditch Van Loon

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Eliza Bowditch van Loon was a member of the Bowditch family of Boston. Her father was Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840-1911), a renowned medical professor and researcher at the Harvard Medical School. She married Hendrik Willem van Loon, a Dutch citizen who had studied at Cornell University, and who became an AP correspondent in Moscow in 1906. After living in Moscow for several months, the van Loons moved to Warsaw in September of 1906 when Hendrik was re-assigned. From t...