Jacques Loeb. Biographical Sketch
Rockefeller University Digital Commons @ RU Collection of Reprints by Jacques Loeb Special Collections 9-15-1928 Jacques Loeb. Biographical Sketch W. Osterhout Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/collection-of-reprints-loeb THE JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY . JACQUES -LOEB MEMORIAL VOLUME EDITORS W. J. CROZIER JOHN H. NORTHROP W. J. V. OSTERHOUT JACQUES LOEB . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY W. J. V. OSTERHOUT [Reprinted from VourME VIII, No. 1, pp. ix-xcii, September 15, 1928.] Plwtograpked iv Louis Sclurudt,192.'J JACQUES LOEB BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH [Reprinted from the JACQUES LOEB MEMORIAL VOLUME, TllE JOURNAL OF GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY, September 15, 1928, Vol. viii, No. 1, pp. ix-xcii.] JACQUES LOEB. BY W. J. V. OSTERHOUT. I. If I venture to write of Jacques Loeb, it is not to create a portrait but only to set forth facts to aid those who would follow in his footsteps. In this I bespeak the charity of the reader. And if the writing achieve any part of its purpose it is because of many who in loving veneration gave loyal aid. Loeb's ancestors were among those illuminati who forsook Portugal 9n account of the intolerance of the Inquisition: they settled at Mayen in the Rhine province several generations before he was born. His father, Benedict Loeb, was an importer, a man of simple tastes, more interested in science (especially in physics, mathematics, and geology), in literature, and in collecting books than in business. He was extremely reserved, and much of an resthete. He married Barbara Isay and their firstchild, Jacques, was born April 7, 1859, and was followed by a second, Leo, some ten years later.
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