Van Dyke, Henry

van Dyke, Henry, 1852–1933, American clergyman, educator, and author, b. Germantown, Pa., grad. Princeton, 1873, and Princeton Theological Seminary, 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883–99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899–1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913–16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). The themes of his sermons are also expressed in his poetry and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman's Luck (1899). He translated (1902) The Blue Flower of Novalis.

Bibliography

See biography by his son, Tertius van Dyke (1935).

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Van Dyke, Henry (1852–1933) Protestant clergyman, author; born in Germantown, Pa. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he grew up in New York City, was educated at Princeton, and held pastorates in Newport, R.I., and New York City. From 1899 to 1923 he was a professor of English at Princeton. His publications included poetry, essays, and short stories on religious and secular themes. He was American ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg from 1913 to 1916 and served as a naval chaplain during World War I.