Jan Herman van Roijen Jr.

Jan Herman van Roijen (10 April 1905 – 16 March 1991) was a Dutch diplomat and politician. He was Dutch foreign minister in 1946.

Early life Van Roijen was born in Constantinople on 10 April 1905. He was the son of Jan Herman van Roijen Sr (1871–1933) and the American-born Albertina Taylor Winthrop (1871–1934), who married in May 1904. When he was born, his father was a diplomat in Constantinople.

He received a Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht. and jointly to the United Kingdom and to Iceland (1964–1970).

Awards In 1982 he received the inaugural Freedom from Fear Award and in 1984 he received the Wateler Peace Prize for his diplomatic efforts.

He received an Honorary Doctor of Civil Law from The University of Toledo on June 8, 1957.

Personal life Van Roijen, his wife Anne, and Minister Logeman, 23 February 1946. Van Roijen was married to Anne Snouck Hurgronje, a daughter of Aarnout Marinus Snouck Hurgronje. Together, they were the parents of two sons, Jan Herman and Willem, and two daughters, Tina van Notten and Digna van Karnebeek. While in America, they owned a 300-acre farm in Warrenton, Virginia.

He died, aged eighty-five, on 16 March 1991 at Wassenaar in South Holland.