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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|01|20|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|01|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Astoria]], [[Oregon]]
| birth_place = [[Astoria]], [[Oregon]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|08|26|1946|01|20|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|08|26|1946|01|20|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Leiden]], [[The Netherlands]]
| death_place = [[Leiden]], [[The Netherlands]]
==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs was born on 20 January 1946 in [[Astoria]], to Carl O. Bangs, a church historian and theology professor, and Marjorie Friesen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memory: Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs (1946-2023) {{!}} Congregational Library & Archives |url=https://www.congregationallibrary.org/blog/memory-dr-jeremy-dupertuis-bangs-1946-2023 |access-date=2025-10-31 |website=www.congregationallibrary.org}}</ref> He was raised in Chicago and Missouri.<ref name=”auto”>Lydialyle Gibson|The University of Chicago Magazine — Nov–Dec 2013</ref> During high school he was a talented [[bassoonist]] and was accepted into the [[Julliard School|Julliard School.]]<ref name=”auto”/>
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs was born on 20 January 1946 in [[Astoria]], to Carl O. Bangs, a church historian and theology professor, and Marjorie Friesen.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Memory: Dr. Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs (1946-2023) {{!}} Congregational Library & Archives |url=https://www.congregationallibrary.org/blog/memory-dr-jeremy-dupertuis-bangs-1946-2023 |access-date=2025-10-31 |website=www.congregationallibrary.org}}</ref> He was raised in Chicago and Missouri.<ref name=”auto”>Lydialyle Gibson|The University of Chicago Magazine — Nov–Dec 2013</ref> During high school he was a talented [[bassoonist]] and was accepted into the [[Julliard School|Julliard School.]]<ref name=”auto”/>
In 1968, he completed his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA.]] in Art History, and following the [[King assassination riots|U.S. summer riots]] (where he witnessed police brutality), he worked in London before moving to Leiden where he took his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]].
In 1968, he completed his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA.]] in Art History, and following the [[King assassination riots|U.S. summer riots]] (where he witnessed police brutality), he worked in London before moving to Leiden where he took his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]].
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs (20 January 1946 – 26 August 2023) was an American historian, author and the former director of the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum. After studying at University of Chicago, he completed his doctorate at the University of Leiden (Ph.D., 1976).[1] Bangs is known for his study on the pilgrims and his books written on early modern Dutch and American history.
Early life and education
Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs was born on 20 January 1946 in Astoria, to Carl O. Bangs, a church historian and theology professor, and Marjorie Friesen.[2] He was raised in Chicago and Missouri.[3] During high school he was a talented bassoonist and was accepted into the Julliard School.[3]
In 1968, he completed his BA. in Art History, and following the U.S. summer riots (where he witnessed police brutality), he worked in London before moving to Leiden where he took his PhD.
Career
Jeremy Bangs worked as Chief Curator at Plimouth Plantation from 1986 to 1991. After, he worked as Visiting Curator of MSS at Pilgrim Hall Museum and as Assistant Archivist at Scituate Town Archives from 1993 to 1996. He emigrated to Holland in 1996, where he founded the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in 1997 and worked there until his death.
In 1998, The New York Times reported that he was at threat of deportation as the government was cracking down on illegal migrants. [4]
On 26 August 2023, he died following a period of ill health.
Honors
Bangs was named as a Knight on the Order of Oranje-Nassau by King Willem-Alexander. On April 27th 2018, the mayor of Leiden, Henri Lenferink, presented Dr. Bangs with this knighthood[5]
Publications
- Cornelis Engebrechtsz.’s Leiden (1979)[6]
- The Pilgrims in the Netherlands Recent Research : Papers Presented at a Symposium Held by the Leiden Pilgrim Documents Center and the Sir Thomas Browne Institute[7] (1985)
- The seventeenth-century town records of Scituate, Massachusetts[8] (1999)
- Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries Before 1566 (1997)[9]
- Pilgrim Life in Leiden: Texts and Images from the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum (1997)
- Indian Deeds: Land Transactions in Plymouth Colony, 1620-1691 (2002)[10]
- Pilgrim Edward Winslow: New England’s First International Diplomat : a Documentary Biography (2004)[11]
- Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation (2009)[12]
- The Travels of Elkanah Watson: An American Businessman in the Revolutionary War, in 1780s Europe and in the Formative Decades of the United States (2015)[13]
- New Light on the Old Colony: Plymouth, the Dutch Context of Toleration, and Patterns of Pilgrim Commemoration (2019)[14]
- Letters on Toleration: Dutch Aid to Persecuted Swiss and Palatine Mennonites 1615-1699[15]
