James Loeb

 ( 1867 Births ) 

James Loeb (; "Loeb". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ; August 6, 1867 – May 27, 1933) was an American banker, Hellenist and philanthropist.

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Biography James Loeb, of German-Jewish descent, was the second son of Solomon Loeb and Betty Loeb.Born Betty Gallenberg. Salomon Loeb met and married Betty in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany in 1862. She was then 28 years old, educated as a musician and teaching the piano. The James Loeb biography from the Loeb Classical Library calls her Betty (Goldman) Loeb. James Loeb joined his father at Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in 1888 and was made partner in 1894, but he retired from the bank in 1901 due to severe illness.

In memory of his former lecturer and friend Charles Eliot Norton, Loeb created The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship in 1907. The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship , Archaeological Institute of America In 1911, he founded and endowed the Loeb Classical Library. He assembled a team of Anglo-American classicists to oversee the series, and arranged for publication through Heinemann (publisher) in LondonMcDonough, Christopher M. 2012. “The Red and the Green: James Loeb and His Classical Library.” Sewanee Review 120 (4): 553–58. Loeb bequeathed the Loeb Classical Library and funds to Harvard University to establish The Loeb Classical Library Foundation and to support research in the classics. History of the Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University).

He founded the Institute of Musical Art, which later became part of the Juilliard School of Music. That year he also turned over his collection of Arretine ware to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.

He donated a large amount of funds to what became the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, which helped his former psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin to establish and maintain the Institute in its early days. Nevertheless, presumably unknown to Loeb, Kraepelin held racist views about Jews, and his student who took over the Institute, Ernst Rudin, was a leading advocate of racial hygiene and forced sterilization or killing of psychiatric inpatients for which he was personally honored by Adolf Hitler. Science and Inhumanity: The Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max Planck Society William E. Seidelman MD, 2001 Who's Who in Nazi Germany Robert S. Wistrich, Routledge, July 4, 2013

Loeb left a large portion of his significant art collection to the Museum Antiker Kleinkunst in Munich, which became the Staatliche Antikensammlungen ("Sammlung James Loeb"). He was a member of the English Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

Loeb's correspondence with Aby Warburg has been characterized as creating a Renaissance of relationships of the European to classical antiquity. "Aby Warburg's Collaboration with James Loeb and Fritz Saxl" in McEwan, D. (2023). Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing (1st ed.). Routledge.

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Translations

• Paul Delcharme, Euripides and the Spirit of His Dreams
• Maurice Croiset, Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens
• Auguste Couat, Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies, 324-222 B.C.

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Further reading

• "Aby Warburg's Collaboration with James Loeb and Fritz Saxl" in McEwan, D. (2023). Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing (1st ed.). Routledge.
• James Loeb, 1887–1933: Kunstsammler und Mäzen, by Brigitte Salmen (ed.) for the Schloßmuseum des Marktes Murnau, Murnau, 2000. This; James Loeb: Unser Vater: Eine Denkschrift für Salomon Loeb, pp. 9–16.]
• Olmstead, Andrea. “The Toll of Idealism: James Loeb—Musician, Classicist, Philanthropist.” The Journal of Musicology (St. Joseph, Mich.) 14.2 (1996): 233–262.

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External links

• Loeb Family Tree
• James Loeb

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