Max Kohnstamm

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Max Kohnstamm was a Dutch historian and diplomat. Max Kohnstamm is the son of Philip Kohnstamm, a physicist, philosopher and pedagogue of Jewish-German origin. He was educated at Amsterdam University, where he studied Modern History, before taking up a fellowship at American University, Washington, D.C. During 1938 and 1939 he travelled through the United States as part of his studies. His correspondence with his father during this period discussed his impressions of the United States and his concerns with the looming war. He was private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands from 1945 to 1948, then served with the Netherland Foreign Office from 1948 to 1952