Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998,

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, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U.S. State Department official, and professor of international studies in Geneva. Halle received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1932. He served in the US Army before World War II and in the Coast Guard during World War II. He was a Latin American specialist employed by the US State Department Policy Planning Staff from the mid 1940s to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 at the University of Virginia, he was a researcher on American foreign policy. He became in 1956 a professor at the

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in Geneva. He retired there as professor emeritus in 1973 but remained in Geneva. He was the author of 22 books. In 1941 he received the

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for ''Birds Against Men''.

Family

Louis J. Halle Jr. married Barbara Mark in 1946 and was the father of five children. The famous inventor and philanthropist

Hiram Halle Hiram J. Halle (1867–1944) was an American businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was also part owner of Gulf Oil company. Halle was dedicated to Jewish causes during World War II. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he dropped out of high school ...

was a brother of Louis J. Halle, Sr. and an uncle of Louis J. Halle Jr.

Selected publications

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Halle, Louis J. Jr. 1910 births 1998 deaths Harvard University alumni Academic staff of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies 20th-century American Jews American foreign policy writers American non-fiction environmental writers American political writers John Burroughs Medal recipients American nature writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American naturalists