Lawrence Amos McLouth

Lawrence Amos McLouth, A.B., LL.D. (1863-1927) was an American Germanic scholar, born at Ontonagon, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887. He served as principal of the Danville, Ill. High School for three years, then proceeded to Europe for additional training, studying for two years at Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich. He returned to the University of Michigan as instructor in German. In 1895 he became professor of Germanic languages and literatures at NYU. He edited Zwingli's sermons (1902) and some of the novels of Gerstäcker (1904) and Heyse (1910). He published "The Teaching of Foreign Literature" (1903) and "Verses" (1910.