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1880–1962
An American scholar and teacher with a wide-ranging interest in language, travel, and cross-cultural understanding, he wrote about Germany after World War I and about early contacts between the United States and China. His books reflect a curiosity about how people and cultures meet, learn, and change.

by George H. (George Henry) Danton
George H. Danton, also listed as George Henry Danton, was born in 1880 and died in 1962. Library and bibliographic records connect him with a varied body of work that includes studies of Germany, China, and German literature, showing an author comfortable moving between history, language, and cultural interpretation.
Available reference sources identify him as a professor of German at Qinghua College in Beijing. His published books include Germany Ten Years After, The Chinese People, and The Culture Contacts of the United States and China, suggesting a career shaped by travel, teaching, and close attention to international exchange.
Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources readily available online, the outline that emerges is of a writer interested in helping readers understand other societies in human terms. That combination of scholarship and curiosity gives his work an inviting, exploratory feel even today.