![]() ![]() from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic (1913). The newlyweds moved to Germany, where van Loon received his Ph.D. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch (1880–1955), daughter of a Harvard professor, by whom he had two sons, Henry Bowditch and Gerard Willem. He immigrated to the United States in 1902 to study at Harvard University and then Cornell University, where he received his AB in 1905. Van Loon was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. ![]() van Loon, and the mayor of New York, Fiorello La Guardia. In the picture from the left are former president Herbert Hoover (chairman of the Finland committee), Dr. On December 20, 1939, a great sympathy meeting for Finland, then embroiled in the Winter War, was arranged in Madison Square Garden. ![]()
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