Paul Van Dyke (1859–1933) was an American

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and the brother of

Henry Van Dyke Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. (November 10, 1852 – April 10, 1933) was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman. Early life Van Dyke was born on November 10, 1852, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Henry ...

. He was born in

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, graduated from

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in 1881 and from

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in 1884, and studied at

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in 1884–85. He was a Presbyterian minister at Geneva, N. Y. in 1887–89, then taught church history at Princeton Theological Seminary (1889–92). After serving as

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at the Edwards Congregational Church in Northampton, Mass. (1892–98), he held the chair of modern European history at Princeton. He wrote ''The Age of the Renascence'' (1897), volume seven in a ten-volume series titled "Ten Epochs of Church History". In 1905, he published his book ''Renascence Portraits'', which "...tries to illustrate the Renascence by describing three men who were affected by it and who were all living at the same time in Italy, England and Germany" (the three men are

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, and

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was blocked by the Venetians. He proclaimed hi ...

).In 1921–22 and 1928–29, Van Dyke directed the Continental division of the American University Union in Europe, which was based in Paris. He was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1927. At Princeton Theological Seminary, he taught classes using the German "seminar" method. When he joined the faculty of Princeton College in 1898, he was Chair of History and Political Science.

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1859 births 1933 deaths American people of Dutch descent American Presbyterian ministers Historians from Brooklyn {{US-historian-stub