Paul Van Dyke

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This article is about the American historian. For the DJ, see Paul van Dyk.

Paul Van Dyke (1859 – 1933) was an American historian, brother of Henry Van Dyke. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., graduated from Princeton in 1881, from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1884, and studied at Berlin in 1884–85. He was a Presbyterian minister at Geneva, N. Y. in 1887–89, then taught church history at Princeton Seminary (1889–92). After serving as pastor 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) and Renascence Portraits (1905).