Louise Ropes Loomis
BornMay 3, 1874
Yokohama, Japan
DiedJanuary 2, 1958
Pomfret, Connecticut, US
Occupation(s)Historian, editor, translator, college professor
Known forProfessor at Wells College, co-founder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
RelativesRoger Sherman Loomis (brother); Evarts G. Loomis (nephew); Gertrude Schoepperle (sister-in-law); Laura Hibbard Loomis (sister-in-law)

Louise Ropes Loomis (May 3, 1874 – January 2, 1958) was an American historian, classicist, and translator. She was a professor of history at Wells College from 1921 to 1940, and editor of Classics Club Publications from the 1920s until 1949. In 1930, she co-founded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians with Louise Fargo Brown.

Early life and education

Louise Ropes Loomis was born in Yokohama, the daughter of Henry Loomis and Jane Herring Greene Loomis; her parents were Presbyterian missionaries in Japan. Her brother was Arthurian scholar Roger Sherman Loomis; physician Evarts G. Loomis was one of her nephews.[1][2]

In 1897, Loomis graduated from Wellesley College,[3][4] where she was a literary editor of The Wellesley Magazine.[5] She earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1902, and completed doctoral studies at there in 1906, with a dissertation titled "Medieval Hellenism".[6][7]

Career

Loomis was a lecturer in history at Barnard College,[8] and was appointed Warden of Sage College at Cornell University in 1905.[9] In 1906 and 1928, she spoke at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association.[10][11] From 1921 to 1940, she was a professor of history at Wells College.[12] In 1930, she co-founded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians,[13] with Louise Fargo Brown of Vassar College. She was editor of Classics Club Publications from the mid-1920s until 1949.[6]

Publications

Personal life

Loomis lived with Mary Katharine Fuertes, daughter of Cornell engineer Estevan Antonio Fuertes, for many years (they are recorded as living together in the 1920, 1930, and 1940 federal censuses, and in the 1915 New York State census), and the two women co-owned a poultry farm in Washingtonville.[25] Loomis died in 1958, in Pomfret, Connecticut, aged 83 years. Her papers are in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.[6]

References

  1. ^ "The Rev. Henry Loomis". Bible Society Record. 65: 190–191. December 1920.
  2. ^ "Authority on King Arthur Dies". Hartford Courant. 1966-10-13. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Nevers, Cordelia Caroline (1896). Wellesley Lyrics: Poems Written by Students and Graduates of Wellesley College. F. Wood Printer.
  4. ^ Wellesley College (1897). Calendar. p. 73.
  5. ^ Masthead, The Wellesley Magazine 4 (May 16, 1896): 1.
  6. ^ a b c "Louise Ropes Loomis papers, 1925-1958". Columbia University. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  7. ^ College, Wellesley (1912). Bulletin. p. 77.
  8. ^ Columbia University (1905). Columbia University Bulletin. Columbia University Press.
  9. ^ "Cornell Gets Miss Loomis". The New York Times. 1905-06-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
  10. ^ "Educators in Providence". Boston Evening Transcript. 1906-12-27. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Historians Spend Much Time at Special Group Sessions". The Indianapolis Star. 1928-12-30. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-04-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Wells College Commencement". The Buffalo Times. 1921-06-16. p. 14. Retrieved 2022-04-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Scott, Joan Wallach (1999). Gender and the Politics of History. Columbia University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-231-11857-6.
  14. ^ Loomis, Louise Ropes (1906). Medieval Hellenism. Lancaster, Pa.: Wickersham Press.
  15. ^ Loomis, Louise Ropes (January 1908). "The Greek Renaissance in Italy". The American Historical Review. 13 (2): 246–258. doi:10.2307/1832613. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1832613.
  16. ^ Loomis, Louise Ropes (1916). The book of the popes (Liber pontificalis). Columbia University Libraries. New York, Columbia University Press.
  17. ^ Shotwell, James T; Loomis, Louise Ropes (1927). The see of Peter. New York: Columbia University Press. OCLC 1419968.
  18. ^ Loomis, Louise R. (1932). "The Organization by Nations at Constance". Church History. 1 (4): 191–210. doi:10.1017/S0009640700119833. ISSN 0009-6407. JSTOR 3691934. S2CID 154400757.
  19. ^ Loomis, Louise R. (April 1939). "Nationality at the Council of Constance: An Anglo-French Dispute". The American Historical Review. 44 (3): 508–527. doi:10.2307/1839900. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 1839900.
  20. ^ Homer; Butler, Samuel; Loomis, Louise Ropes (1942). The Iliad of Homer. OCLC 312311.
  21. ^ Plato (1942). Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic. New York: Published for the Classics club by W.J. Black. ISBN 978-0-517-14680-4. OCLC 367555.
  22. ^ Aristotle; Loomis, Louise Ropes (1943). On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics. New York: Published for the Classics Club by W.L. Black. OCLC 306617.
  23. ^ Homer; Butler, Samuel; Loomis, Louise Ropes (1944). The Odyssey of Homer. OCLC 313865.
  24. ^ Loomis, Louise Ropes; Mundy, John Hine; Woody, Kennerly M (1961). The Council of Constance: the unification of the church. New York: Columbia University Press. OCLC 245305.
  25. ^ Thorenz, Matt (March 3, 2022). "Throwback Thursday". Moffat Library. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
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