James Loeb

James Loeb (/loʊb/;[3] German: [løːp]; August 6, 1867 – May 27, 1933) was an American banker, Hellenist and philanthropist.

For the 20th-century American politician and activist, see James I. Loeb.
James Loeb
Loeb in his youth, possibly during his time at Harvard
Born(1867-08-06)August 6, 1867
New York City, New York, U.S.[1]
DiedMay 27, 1933(1933-05-27) (aged 65)
Munich, Germany
NationalityGerman
American
Alma materHarvard College[2]
OccupationBanker

Biography

James Loeb was the second born son of Solomon Loeb and Betty Loeb.[4] He 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 illnesses.

In memory of his former lecturer and friend Charles Eliot Norton, in 1907 Loeb created The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship.[5] In 1911, he founded and endowed the Loeb Classical Library, and 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 pottery to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard.[6]

Loeb in his 30s

He donated a large amount of funds to what is now called the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, which helped his former psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin to establish and maintain the Institute in its early days.[1] 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 honoured by Adolf Hitler.[7][8][9]

A large portion of his significant art collection he left to the Museum Antiker Kleinkunst in Munich (today the Staatliche Antikensammlungen) ("Sammlung James Loeb"). He was a member of the English Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.[6]

Translations
  • Paul Delcharme, Euripides and the Spirit of His Dreams
  • Maurice Croiset, Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens

References
  1. "About James Loeb, Founder". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  2. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1933/9/21/james-loeb-bequeaths-over-800000-to/
  3. "Loeb". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  4. Born Betty Gallenberg. Salomon Loeb met and married her in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany in 1862. She was then 28 years old, educated as a musician, she also taught the piano. The James Loeb biography from the Loeb Classical Library calls her Betty (Goldman) Loeb.
  5. The Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship Archived 2005-11-04 at the Wayback Machine, Archaeological Institute of America
  6. Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Loeb, James" . Encyclopedia Americana.
  7. Brüne, Martin (1 January 2007). "On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics". Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine. 2 (1): 21. doi:10.1186/1747-5341-2-21. PMC 2082022. PMID 17919321.
  8. Science and Inhumanity: The Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max Planck Society William E. Seidelman MD, 2001
  9. Who's Who in Nazi Germany Robert S. Wistrich, Routledge, 4 Jul 2013

Further reading
  • James Loeb, 1887–1933: Kunstsammler und Mäzen, by Brigitte Salmen (ed.) for the Schloßmuseum des Marktes Murnau, Murnau, 2000. [This is a German-language exhibition-catalogue for a presentation of the life of James Loeb, collector and philanthropist at the Schloßmuseum Murnau, April 7 – July 9, 2000. The book contains essays from various authors (Brigitte Salmen, Dorothea McEwan, Erika Simon and others). It also contains a German translation of James Loeb's biographical essay Our Father: A Memorial [privately printed, 1929]; James Loeb: Unser Vater: Eine Denkschrift für Salomon Loeb, pp. 9–16.]
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