Michiel Steven Daniel Horn (born 1939) is a Canadian historian who serves as a professor emeritus at
Glendon College
Glendon College is a public liberal arts college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Formally the federated bilingual campus of York University, it is one of the school's nine colleges and 11 faculties with 100 full-time faculty members and a student po ...
,
York University
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Life and career
Horn was born on September 3, 1939, in
Baarn
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[ orn, Michiel, Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1997. Autobiography/ref> His family migrated to Canada from the Netherlands in 1952, settling in ]Victoria
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, British Columbia
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. He graduated from Victoria High School in 1956.
Horn holds a Bachelor of Arts
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degree from the University of British Columbia
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, and Master of Arts
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and Doctor of Philosophy
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degrees from the University of Toronto
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. He is currently a professor emeritus
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of history and university historian at Glendon College
Glendon College is a public liberal arts college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Formally the federated bilingual campus of York University, it is one of the school's nine colleges and 11 faculties with 100 full-time faculty members and a student po ...
, York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and sta ...
, in Toronto
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, where he has worked since 1968.
Horn has been married to Cornelia Maria Schuh, a lawyer and civil servant
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with the Ontario
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provincial government, since December 29, 1984. They have two sons, Daniel and Patrick.
In 2002, Horn was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada
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in Academy II (Social Sciences).
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See also
* F. R. Scott
Notes
References
* Elizabeth Lumley (Editor),'' Canadian Who's Who 2006'', University of Toronto Press, 2006,
* Michiel Horn, ''Becoming Canadian: Memoirs of an Invisible Immigrant'', University of Toronto Press, 1997,
External links
Michiel Horn
Glendon College
Glendon College is a public liberal arts college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Formally the federated bilingual campus of York University, it is one of the school's nine colleges and 11 faculties with 100 full-time faculty members and a student po ...
, York University
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, Faculty
Alumni Association
University of Victoria
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1939 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian historians
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Dutch emigrants to Canada
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
People from Baarn
University of Toronto alumni
York University faculty
University of British Columbia alumni
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