Background
Cronau, Rudolf was born on January 21, 1855 in Solingen, Germany. Son of Rudolf Cronau and Helene (Waldeck) Cronau.
Cronau, Rudolf was born on January 21, 1855 in Solingen, Germany. Son of Rudolf Cronau and Helene (Waldeck) Cronau.
Edward high schools and Academy of Art, Dusseidorf, Germany.
Came to America, 1880. American representative Cologne Gazette, 1893-1899. Writer, traveler and lecturer, since 1877.
Author: History of the Sward Industry of Solingen (public Stuttgart), 1885.
From Wonderland to Wonderland (2 volumes, Leipzig), 1886. Travels in the Lands of the Sioux (Leipzig), 1886.
In the Wild West—Trips of an Artist (Braunschweig), 1890. America—the History of Its Discovery from Ancient to the Present Time (2 volumes, public in Germany and Spain), 1892 (award Chicago Exposition, 1893).
Our Wasteful Nation (New York), 1908.
Three Centuries of German Life in America (Berlin), 1909, second edition, 1925 (awarded $2,000, University of Chicago). The British Black Book, 1915. German Achievements in America, 1916, 3d edit, 1917.
Woman Triumphant, 1919.
In the Realm of Clouds and Gods, 1919. The Discovery of America and the Landfall of Columbus—The Last Resting Place of Columbus, 1921.
The Army of the American Revolution and Its Organizer, 1923. Prohibition and the Destruction of the American Brewing Industry, 1926.
Home: Philipse Manor, New New York
Married Margarethe Taenzler, February 8, 1888.