Louis_J._Halle,_Jr.
Louis J. Halle Jr.
American naturalist, U.S. State Department official, author, and academic (1910– 1998)
Louis Joseph Halle Jr. (17 November 1910, New York City – 13 August 1998, Geneva, Switzerland) was an American naturalist, author, U.S. State Department official, and professor of international studies in Geneva.[1]
Halle received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1932.
As a young man, he worked for a railway company in Central America and later with a publishing house in New York. For a year, he did graduate study in anthropology at Harvard, then explored boundary rivers between Guatemala and Mexico by mule and dugout canoe.[1]
He served in the US Army before World War II and in the Coast Guard during World War II. He was a Latin American specialist employed by the US State Department Policy Planning Staff from the mid 1940s to 1954. From 1954 to 1956 at the University of Virginia, he was a researcher on American foreign policy. He became in 1956 a professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He retired there as professor emeritus in 1973 but remained in Geneva.[1]
He was the author of 22 books.[1] In 1941 he received the John Burroughs Medal for Birds Against Men.[2]