Louise Ropes Loomis Explained

Louise Ropes Loomis
Birth Date:May 3, 1874
Birth Place:Yokohama, Japan
Death Date:January 2, 1958
Death Place:Pomfret, Connecticut, US
Occupation:Historian, editor, translator, college professor
Known For:Professor at Wells College, co-founder of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Relatives:Roger 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.

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.

Notes and References

  1. December 1920 . The Rev. Henry Loomis . Bible Society Record . 65 . 190–191.
  2. News: 1966-10-13 . Authority on King Arthur Dies . 2 . Hartford Courant . 2022-04-20 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: Nevers, Cordelia Caroline . Wellesley Lyrics: Poems Written by Students and Graduates of Wellesley College . 1896 . F. Wood Printer . en.
  4. Book: Wellesley College . Calendar . 1897 . 73 . en.
  5. https://repository.wellesley.edu/islandora/object/wellesley%3A3218/datastream/OBJ/download Masthead
  6. Web site: Louise Ropes Loomis papers, 1925-1958 . 2022-04-20 . Columbia University.
  7. Book: College, Wellesley . Bulletin . 1912 . 77 . en.
  8. Book: Columbia University . Columbia University Bulletin . 1905 . Columbia University Press . en.
  9. News: 1905-06-04 . Cornell Gets Miss Loomis. . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-20 . 0362-4331.
  10. News: 1906-12-27 . Educators in Providence . 2 . Boston Evening Transcript . 2022-04-20 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1928-12-30 . Historians Spend Much Time at Special Group Sessions . 2 . The Indianapolis Star . 2022-04-20 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1921-06-16 . Wells College Commencement . 14 . The Buffalo Times . 2022-04-20 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Scott, Joan Wallach . Gender and the Politics of History . 1999 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-11857-6 . 190 . en.
  14. Book: Loomis, Louise Ropes . Medieval Hellenism . 1906 . Wickersham Press . Lancaster, Pa..
  15. Loomis . Louise Ropes . January 1908 . The Greek Renaissance in Italy . The American Historical Review . 13 . 2 . 246–258 . 10.2307/1832613 . 1832613 . 0002-8762. subscription .
  16. Book: Loomis, Louise Ropes . The book of the popes (Liber pontificalis) . 1916 . New York, Columbia University Press . Columbia University Libraries.
  17. Book: Shotwell . James T . The see of Peter . Loomis . Louise Ropes . 1927 . Columbia University Press . New York . English . 1419968.
  18. Loomis . Louise R. . 1932 . The Organization by Nations at Constance . Church History . 1 . 4 . 191–210 . 10.1017/S0009640700119833 . 3691934 . 154400757 . 0009-6407.
  19. Loomis . Louise R. . April 1939 . Nationality at the Council of Constance: An Anglo-French Dispute . The American Historical Review . 44 . 3 . 508–527 . 10.2307/1839900 . 1839900 . 0002-8762.
  20. Book: Homer . The Iliad of Homer . Butler . Samuel . Loomis . Louise Ropes . 1942 . English . 312311.
  21. Book: Plato . Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic . Jowett . Benjamin . Loomis . Louise Ropes . 1942 . Published for the Classics club by W.J. Black . 978-0-517-14680-4 . New York . English . 367555.
  22. Book: Aristotle . On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics. . Loomis . Louise Ropes . 1943 . Published for the Classics Club by W.L. Black . New York . English . 306617.
  23. Book: Homer . The Odyssey of Homer . Butler . Samuel . Loomis . Louise Ropes . 1944 . English . 313865.
  24. Book: Loomis . Louise Ropes . The Council of Constance: the unification of the church. . Mundy . John Hine . Woody . Kennerly M . 1961 . Columbia University Press . New York . English . 245305.
  25. Web site: Thorenz . Matt . March 3, 2022 . Throwback Thursday . 2022-04-20 . Moffat Library.

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