Scope and Contents of the Collection

Index to the Collection n.d.

Biographical Material 1921-1980

Correspondence 1918-1970

Correspondence -German-American 1848-1914

Lecture-Alumnae College 1938

Lecture-Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor n.d.

Lecture Notes-Erasmus 1959

Lecture Notes-Gilmore; Humanists and Lawyers n.d.

Lecture Notes-Renaissance Historiography n.d.

Miscellaneous Material 1965-1967

Photographs n.d.

Publications-Benefit of Clergy In England in the Later Middle Ages1930-1936

Publications-The Dialogus of Lapo di Castiglionchi: A Humanist Point of Viewn.d.

Publications-Encyclopedia Americanan.d.

Publications-Review of Nuntiaturberichte aus Deuschland1960

Retirement n.d.

Retirement-Correspondence 1963

Retirement-Symposium 1963

Retirement Symposium-Announcement Lists n.d.

Retirement Symposium-Correspondence 1962-1963

Retirement Symposium-Correspondence-Sheehan 1963

Retirement Symposium-Speeches 1963

Venerable English College-"Rome" 1938

Publications-Renaissance and Reformation

Commentaries of Pope Pius II

Publications-From Slavery to the Sorbonne and Beyond: The Life and Writings of Anna J. Cooper

Publications-From Slavery to the Sorbonne and Beyond-Source Material

Leona C. Gabel Papers, 1848-1980

Finding Aid

Finding aid prepared by Emily Markham.

© 2006


Collection Overview
	Creator:	Gabel, Leona C. (Leona Christine), 1895-1980
	Title:	Leona C. Gabel Papers
	Dates:	1848-1980
	Abstract:	Professor of History. Contains biographical material, publications, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings.
	Extent:	5 boxes(2.1 linear ft.)
	Language:	English
	Identification:	RG 42

Biographical Note

Leona Christine Gabel was born on April 15, 1895 in Syracuse, New York to Jacob and Christina Gabel. She attended Syracuse University and graduated in 1915 with majors in History and German and a minor in French. Her senior year at Syracuse she was elected into the honorary scholarship societies of Kappa Phi Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. Following graduation, Gabel worked for two years as a teacher at Canastota High School. In 1921-22, she was the Bryn Mawr Traveling Fellow at King's College and at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. In 1923, Gabel joined the faculty at Smith College as an instructor. In 1928, she earned her PhD from Bryn Mawr College after writing her thesis, The Benefit of Clergy in England during the Later Middle Ages, where she analyzed the relationship between secular courts and church courts relating to the death penalty. In 1929, Gabel was named Dean of the Class of 1932 at Smith College. Gabel reached full professorship in 1940, and was named the Dwight W. Morrow Professor of History in 1961, before eventually retiring from the Smith faculty in 1963. On August 25, 1980, she passed away at the age of 85 after being hospitalized for many weeks.

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

This collection includes biographical materials, publications, correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings regarding Gabel's education and career at Smith College and elsewhere.