Lawrence Amos McLouth

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Lawrence Amos McLouth (1863–1927) was an American scholar of Germanic studies.

Early life
McLouth was born in Ontonagon, Michigan. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1887 and was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.

Career
He first worked as principal of the Danville, Illinois High School for three years. He then went to Europe for two years of study in Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Munich. McLouth returned to the University of Michigan as an instructor in German. In 1895, he became a professor of Germanic languages and literatures at New York University. He partnered with Oswald Ottendorfer to create a Germanic library at NYU and helped establish the Ottendorfer Memorial Scholarship, serving on the scholarship’s administrative committee. He edited Huldrych Zwingli’s sermons (1902) and some novels by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1904) and Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (1910). He published The Teaching of Foreign Literature (1903) and Verses (1910).

Death
McLouth died on February 24, 1927, in New York City.