Euripides and the Spirit of his Dramas. Translated by James Loeb
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The Value of Humanistic, Particularly Classical, Studies As a Training for Men of Affairs: A Symposium From the the Proceedings of the Classical ... Volume 10, Issue 21 Of University Bulletin
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Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens by Maurice Croiset
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James Loeb was an American banker, humanist, and philanthropist.
Background
James Loeb, the younger of two sons in the family of five children of Solomon and Betty (Gallenberg) Loeb, was born on August 6, 1867 in New York City, New York, United States. The middle name Morris was given to him, but he never used it.
Education
He attended Hull's school and Dr. Julius Sachs's Collegiate Institute. In 1888 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. In recognition of his contribution to the humanities he received two degrees honoris causa, the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Munich in 1923 and the degree of doctor of laws from Cambridge University, England, in 1925.
Career
Loeb acceded to his father's wish and entered the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, of which his father was a founder. There he remained until his father's death in 1901. From 1905 he resided abroad, first in Munich and then for the last twenty years of his life at Murnau, a peaceful, picturesque locality in Bavaria on the Staffelsee. Here he enjoyed close contact with his collections; devoted a portion of his time to music, in which he always took a deep interest, being himself a skilled player on the 'cello and the piano; engaged in literary pursuits; and furthered his many benefactions, all made with a modesty that kept them from general public knowledge.
He began his social services and philanthropies in his younger years while still a banker in New York, giving attention to civil and political reform and to educational problems. In 1905, in memory of his mother, he established the American Institute of Musical Art in New York City, which was ultimately merged with the Juilliard Musical Foundation. He also aided the cause of music in other ways in many places. His gifts to Harvard College were frequent and large; their variety reveals the broad scope of his interests.
For twenty-five years he maintained the Ricardo Prize Scholarship, and for twenty-seven years he provided a special library fund for the purchase of the publications of labor unions. He contributed toward an addition to Gore Hall, which housed the college library, and to the John Knowles Paine Music Building. With his brother, Morris Loeb, he provided a generous gift toward founding the Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory for research in physical and inorganic chemistry. For ten years he contributed to the Society of Friends of the Fogg Art Museum and aided the museum incidentally in other ways. In 1902, in honor of his long-cherished friend and teacher, he endowed the Charles Eliot Norton travelling fellowship, to enable students from Harvard and Radcliffe to attend the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.
To the Harvard Library he not only made gifts of money from time to time, but in 1909 he also presented to it many books and pamphlets on classical art and archeology from the library of Adolph Furtwängler. In his will he bequeathed a substantial endowment to the department of classics at Harvard and a similar endowment to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Other large bequests were made to the Solomon and Betty Loeb Memorial Home for Convalescents near White Plains, Westchester County, New York, of which he was a cofounder, to Columbia University, to the town council of Murnau, and to the Jewish Nurses' Home in Hamburg, Germany.
His residuary estate went to the German Institute for Psychiatric Research (Spezialfonds der deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie). This institute for the systematic study of the causes of mental diseases had been founded, chiefly with his support, in 1911, and he maintained it by annual gifts after its funds had been practically eliminated by inflation in Germany subsequent to the First World War. He donated the Marie Antonie Students' Home as a dormitory for foreign students, especially American students, attending the University of Munich, for the purpose of effecting better international understanding; he gave an annex to the hospital at Murnau and helped to support other charitable organizations.
His outstanding contribution to humanism was the Loeb Classical Library. This undertaking, conceived with a magnificence of imagination and carried on with a princely generosity worthy of a Cosimo or a Lorenzo de' Medici, remains a witness of his complete devotion to what was finest in the heritage from ancient Greece and Rome, of his clear insight into the enduring value of classical scholarship, and of his wise munificence in using his wealth for permanently increasing human knowledge and human happiness.
Founded in 1910, the Library comprises some three hundred and sixty volumes of Greek and Latin literature in convenient pocket size, with a competently edited original text and the corresponding English translation on facing pages. The editing and translating were entrusted to distinguished classical scholars in Great Britain and the United States. During a period when Loeb was ill, his brother-in-law, Paul M. Warburg, made continuance of the work possible.
Possessing as he did a truly classic Greek feeling for art and beauty, he sought by various means to stimulate as wide and as discriminating an interest as possible in the civilization and culture of the ancient Hellenic world. Toward this end he translated several important books by French scholars on Greek drama and poetry. They include Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas (1906), from the work of Paul Decharme; Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens (1909), from that of Maurice Croiset; The New Greek Comedy (1917), a translation from Philippe Legrand's Daos--Tableau de la Comédie Grecque; and Alexandrian Poetry under the First Three Ptolemies, 324-222 B. C. (1931), from the work of Auguste Couat. His other published writings are not numerous, but they reflect his devotion to scholarship and his sensitive appreciation of form in the presentation of scholarly material.
With the exception of a few objects, he bequeathed his collection to the Museum Antiker Kleinkunst at Munich, which is a part of the Bavarian state collections. The importance of the objects which he had acquired during many years of careful selection is revealed by the catalogues which describe the different categories: Catalogue of the Loeb Collection of Ancient Bronzes, Vases, Gold Ornaments and Engraved Gems Formerly in the Collection of W. H. Forman, Esq. , of Pippbrook, near Dorking, England, Deposited in the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University (1902); G. H. Chase, The Loeb Collection of Arretine Pottery (1908); Johannes Sieveking, Die Bronzen der Sammlung Loeb (1913), Die Terrakotten der Sammlung Loeb (2 vols. , 1916), with a foreword by Loeb, and Bronzen, Terrakotten, Vasen der Sammlung Loeb (1930), also with a foreword by Loeb. A volume entitled Festschrift für James Loeb zum sechzigsten Geburtstag gewidmet (Munich, 1930), prepared for his sixtieth birthday by his archeological friends in Germany and America, is evidence of the esteem and affection in which he was held as "a scholar and a patron of scholarship. "
He was a trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He died on his estate "Hochried" at Murnau, on the Staffelsee, during the night of May 28 and 29, 1933.
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Views
Quotations:
"The day is past when schools can afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that employment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. "
Membership
He was a member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut of Berlin, Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, and the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft zur F"rderung der Wissenschaft.
Connections
Loeb married Marie Antonie (Schmidt) Hambuechen on May 22, 1921 at St. Moritz, Switzerland.