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Lawrence Gwyn van Loon (1903, New York City - 1985, Gloversville, New York) was an American general practitioner, historical linguist and forger. He was a direct descendant of Jan van Loon, who had emigrated from Liege to New Netherland in the seventeenth century. He learned the remains of the Mohawk Dutch language, the ''tawl'', from his maternal grandfather, Walter Hill (1856-1925), a schoolteacher. At the age of ten he went to Reading for a journey to the Mohawk Valley. During the summers of 1930 and 1932 he spent an internship at the Wilhelmina Hospital in Amsterdam. In 1932 he married a Dutch woman, Grietje Prins. Between 1955 and 1967 he was medical director on Hawaii. He was a member of the Holland Society and of the Dutch Settlers Society of Albany. Van Loon was also keeper of the records and translator of the Association of Blauvelt Descendants, descendants of Gerrit Hendrickszen (Blauvelt), who moved from Deventer to New Netherland in 1638. His lifelong relationship with the Dutch language made him an authority on the old Dutch language spoken on the East Coast of the United States. However, several of his publications seemed to be suspect. In 1980 it was established that work of Van Loon was based on forged documents. Among his suspect findings is the Tawagonshi treaty. Other discoveries by Van Loon that proved to be false before publication were an early deed to Manhattan, a map of Albany from 1701, and a map of the Hudson River. ==Publications== * Bachman, Van Cleaf, Alice P. Kenney & Lawrence G. van Loon. 1980. ‘ “Het Poelmeisie”. An introduction to the Hudson Valley Dutch dialect’. ''New York History'' 61, 161-185. * van Loon, L.G. 1938. ''Crumbs from an old Dutch closet. The Dutch dialect of Old New York''. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. * van Loon, L.G. 1939. 'Ave atque Vale, Jersey Lag Duits Verdwijnt'. ''Onze Taaltuin'' 8, 91-95, 107-119. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lawrence Gwyn van Loon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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