LONGBOARDS. See Lombards.

LOOFS, lbfs, FRIEDRICH ARMIN: German Lutheran; b, at Hildesheim (21 m. s.s.e. of Hanover) June 19, 1858. He was educated at the universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, and Leipsic (Ph.D., 1881), and from 1882 to 1886 was privatdorent for church history at the latter university, becoming associate professor in 1886. In 1887 he went in the same capacity to Halle, where he has been full professor of church history since 1888. He is a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and in theology belongs to the school of Ritschl. He has written Zur Chronologie der auf die frankischen Synoden des heiligen Bonifatius bezuglichen Briefe der bonifazischen Briefsammlung (Leipsic, 1881); De antiqua Britonum et Scotorum ecclesia. (1882); Leontius von Byzanz und die gleichnamigen Schriftsteller der griechischen Kirche, i (1887); Die Handschriften der lateinischen Uebersetzung des Irenaus und ihre Kapitelteilung (1888); Leitfaden zum Stadium der Dogmengeschichte (Halle, 1889; rev. and enl. ed., 1908); Predigten (2 vols., 1892-01); Studien uber die dem Johannes von Damaskus zugeschriebenen Parallelen (1892); Die Auferstehungsgeschichte und ihr Wert (Tübingen, 1898); Eustathius von Sebaste und die Chronologie tier Basiliusbriefe (Halle, 1898); Schopfungsgeschichte, Sündenfall und Thurmbau zu Babel (Tübingen, 1899); Anti-Haeckel, eine Replik nebst Beilagen (Halle, 1900; Eng. transl., London, 1903); Grundlinien der Kirchengeschichte in der Form von Dispositionen. (Halle, 1901); Symboliko der christliche Konfessionskunde, i (Tübingen, 1902); and Nestoriana, die Fragmente des Nestorius gesammelt, untersucht and herausgegeben (Halle, 1905).

LOOMIS, 1>Z'mis, AUGUSTUS WARD: American Presbyterian missionary; b. at Andover, Conn., Sept. 4,1816; d. at San Mateo, Cal., July 26, 1891. He was graduated at Hamilton college (1841) and at Princeton Theological Seminary (1844). He was missionary in China, at Macao, Chusan, and Ningpo (1844-50); among the Creek Indiana at Kowetah (1852-53); and among the Chinese in San Francisco (1859-91). He was stated supply at St. Charles, Mo. (1853-54), and at Lower Rock Island, Edwards, and Millersburg, Ill. (1854-59). He wrote: Confu

cius and the Chinese Classics (San Francisco, 1867), and English arid Chinese Lessons (New York, 1872).

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