James Loeb
James " Jimmy" Loeb ( born August 6 1867 in New York City, New York, † May 27, 1933 in Munich ) was an American banker and classical scholar, art collector and philanthropist.
Life
James Loeb was born into a German - Jewish banking family. Both his father, the New York banker Salomon Loeb, as well as his mother Betty (née Gall Hill), a trained pianist had emigrated from the Rhineland. In 1867, Solomon Loeb Abraham Kuhn with the private bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and came to great wealth.
Loeb studied from 1884 to 1888 at Harvard University, on the one hand economic history, political economy and international trade law, on the other hand but also languages , history and art history of classical antiquity. At Harvard Loeb joined the " O.K. Club ", which had formed around Loeb's teacher, the art historian Charles Eliot Norton. In this district also met Bernard Berenson Loeb, with whom he entertained a lifelong friendship.
In accordance with the request of his father joined James in 1888 in his father's bank and was there in 1894 partner. Due to mental health problems and his beautiful spiritual inclinations Loeb moved in 1902 from business life back. 1906 Loeb moved to Munich, where he went to the treatment of the psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. At first he lived in the house Rumfordstraße 33 1911 he had himself built the estate Maria- Josepha -Straße 8 by the architect Carl Sattler (which is a reminiscent of the builder plaque bears since 1990).
In 1921, Loeb Marie Antonie Hambuechen married (nee Schmidt) and since lived retired with his family on his estate Hochried in Murnau. Loeb used only with his family and some friends, among them Aby Warburg, personal relationships.
On 28 January 1933, shortly before Hitler's "seizure of power ", Loeb's wife died. On May 27, ended in 1933 and the life of James Loeb.
Activity as a patron
James Loeb, of which the sentence ' assets to gain, so that we distribute it to decent in abundance " is handed down, put on a large scale his wealth in the service of social and cultural purposes. He established foundations in Harvard, Athens and New York. In 1905 he contributed to the founding of the New York Institute of Musical Art, a forerunner of the Juilliard School of Music, a significant contribution.
The by Emil Kraepelin in 1917 founded German Institute for Psychiatric Research, today the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Loeb supported in the years to 1933 with extensive funds.
Much of his major art collection bequeathed to the museum Loeb Antique cabaret in Munich (today State Collection of Antiquities ) (Collection James Loeb ).
Social Commitment
Towards the end of World War supported Loeb in 1917 and 1918 with money donations, the food supply of the Munich population. In 1930 he made the establishment of the - still today (2010) existing as a dormitory Kaulbachstraße - Marie- Antonia - home for students. The community he founded Murnau 1932, the community hospital with 60 beds.
Others
1912 founded James Loeb Loeb Classical Library, a collection of Greek and Latin poets and writers of classical antiquity, whose works appeared in original language and English translation.
Honors
- Life Member of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
- 1922: Honorary doctorate from the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich
- 1929 Honorary Golden Coin of the City of Munich
- 1929: Honorary Citizen of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich
- 1932: Honorary Citizen of Murnau
- 1945: James Loeb Street in Murnau
- 1984: James Loeb 's Street in Munich
- James - Loeb - primary school in Murnau