Ian Colvin

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Ian Colvin , actually Ian Duncan Colvin , (born September 29, 1877 , † May 10, 1938 ) was an English journalist and historian .

Life

After finishing school and college, Colvin began writing freelance for various newspapers and magazines. From 1909 he acted a. a. as editor-in-chief for the London daily Morning Post . In 1915 he was able to debut successfully with his investigation "The Germans in England"; a work on the influence of the Hanseatic League on the English economy.

In 1939 the Nazi regime identified him as a persona non grata . In the 1950s and 1960s Colvin was a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph ; in South Africa , Morocco and Lebanon . Colvin often used the pseudonym Rip van Winkle for articles that were more feuilletonistic .

Ian Colvin died on May 10, 1938 at the age of sixty.

The writer Clare Colvin is his daughter.

Fonts (selection)

Biographies
  • Carson . The statesman . Macmillan, New York 1935 (3 vol.).
  • The life of General Dyer . Blackwood, Edinburgh 1929.
  • Cecil John Rhodes . 1853-1902 (The people's books). Jack Publ., London 1912.
  • Master spy. The incredible story of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris , who, while Hitler's chief of intelligence, was a secretly ally of the British . McGraw-Hill, New York 1951.
Poems
  • After the Chinese . Peter Davies Books, London 1927.
History books
  • The Germans in England. 1066-1598 . Kennikat Press, Port Washington, NY 1971, ISBN 0-8046-1213-7 (reprinted from London 1915 edition).
  • The cape of adventure. Being strange and notable discoveries, perils, shipwrecks, battles upon sea and land, with pleasant and interesting observations upon the country and the natives of the Cape of good hope (The people's books). Jack Publ., London 1912.
  • The origins of empire (The Westminster Library). Allan Books, London 1926.
  • Vansittart in office. An historical survey of the origins of the Scond World War, based on the papers of Sir Robert Vasittart . Gollancz, London 1965.
Political books
  • South Africa . Holland Press, London 1951.
  • The Chamberlain Cabinet. How the meetings at 10 Downing Street, 1937/39 led to the Second World War . Gollancz, London 1971.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Panikos Panayi (ed.): Germans in Britain since 1500 . Continum Press, Hambledon 1996, p. 13, ISBN 1-85285-126-0 .
  2. ↑ Freely adapted from Léon d'Hervey de Saint-Denys .
  3. ↑ For the US domestic market, this work was entitled None so blind. A British diplomatic view of the origins of World War 2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Colvin, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colvin, Ian Duncan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1877
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1938