Obituary: EDWIN MEYER LOEB 1894–1966

Abstract

E a t the age of 72 while vacationing with his wife in Santa Monica, California. In 1963 he suffered a stroke from which he did not fully recover. Despite its crippling effects and the embarrassment he endured by being dependent on a wheel chair, he remained a spiritually lively, gentle, and considerate man. He was an anthropologist first and always and had looked forward to a summer of work on unpublished African material, combining it with the diversions of swimming, theater, concerts, movies, and the renewal of old friendships, which, next to anthropology, were a necessary part of his life.He was one of three sons born to Albert and Rose Guggenheim Loeb, a prominent New York family. He enjoyed an unhurried education in East Coast secondary schools that stressed Greek, Latin, European languages, and history. His knowledge of Greek and Roman authors was the background for his intcrcst in ancient Mediterranean cultuTes, on which he was working before his death.A t Yale he earned his Ph.B., M.A., and