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Henry John Van Lennep was born on March 18, 1815, at Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. He was the son of Adele Marie (de Heidenstam) and Richard Van Lennep, both members of European families long resident in the Levant.
Henry's parents, acting on the advice of American missionaries, sent him at the age of fifteen to be educated in the United States, where he prepared for college in the Mount Pleasant Institute of Amherst, Massachusetts, and in the Hartford (Connecticut) Grammar School.
In 1837, he graduated from Amherst College. Since he had decided while in college to become a missionary, he next spent a year at Andover Theological Seminary, then completed his religious training under the direction of Dr. Joel Hawes at Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1839, Van Lennep sailed for Turkey as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was at first stationed at Smyrna. After extensive preaching tours through western Turkey and Greece, he visited the United States in 1843. On his return to Turkey in 1844 he was transferred to Constantinople. During the next ten years, he not only carried on regular missionary duties but also taught in the seminary, later Robert College, at Bebek, a suburb of Constantinople, and traveled widely. A visit to Syria and Palestine in 1847 provided the material for his Bible Lands, Their Modern Customs and Manners Illustrative of Scripture (1875).
Late in 1849, he was in the United States. In 1854, he was transferred from Constantinople to Tokat, a city in north-central Anatolia, to establish a mission station and theological seminary. His valuable Travels in Little-Known Parts of Asia Minor, illustrated with his own sketches, is based on careful notes taken on journeys during which he visited and described many important archeological remains of the Hittite period. In 1861, he left Tokat and until 1863 was in the United States, but he returned to preach and teach in Smyrna until 1869 when failing eyesight and disagreement with mission policy led to his permanent settlement in the United States.
For three years, he taught natural science, Greek, and modern languages in Ingham University at LeRoy, New York. He then retired to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and devoted himself to writing. He died at Great Barrington on January 11, 1889.
Van Lennep's familiarity with local customs, mentalities, and languages, together with his lack of condescension toward the people of Turkey, made him an effective preacher and teacher. His Oriental Album (1862), a volume of colored representations of Near Eastern types and costumes, provides evidence of his proficiency as an artist. On August 27, 1839, he was ordained as a Congregational minister at Amherst.
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Van Lennep used French, Armenian, Greek, and Turkish in addition to English, and he found his recreation in music, archeology, and painting.
On November 3, 1839, Van Lennep married Emma L. , the daughter of Henry Bliss of Springfield, Massachusets. She died on September 7, 1840. On September 4, he married Mary Elizabeth Hawes, the daughter of his former teacher. She died on September 27 of the next year. On April 18, 1850, married Emily Ann Bird, whose father, Isaac Bird, had been a missionary in Syria but had retired to live in Hartford, Connecticut. William Bird Van Lennep was their son.
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