Louis Loewe by M. Pittatore, 1871
Digital reproduction courtesy of Penelope Feinstein.
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Louis Loewe (Löwe, Ha-Levi, Eliezer, 1809-1888), born of Jewish parents at Zülz, Prussian Silesia; studied at Rosenburg, and at the yeshivas of Lissa, Nicolsburg, and Pressburg; obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy and Linguistics from the University of Berlin; from 1835- in England as Hebrew Lecturer and Oriental Linguist to the Duke of Sussex; years 1836-39 spent in research travel in Ethiopia, Nubia, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Turkey, Asia Minor, and Greece; studied the Vatican Library (1839); Secretary and Interpreter of Oriental languages to Moses Montefiore (1840-); Head Master of the Jews' College (1856-1858); Examiner for Oriental Languages to the Royal College of Preceptors (1858); founder of the boarding school for Jewish boys at Brighton (1861); and Principal and Director of Sir Moses Montefiore's Theological College at Ramsgate (1869-1888); member of the Royal Asiatic and Numismatic societies, and of the Asiatic Society of Paris; married Emma Silberstein of Breslau (1844), by whom he had eight (or ten - P. Goodman) children; naturalized as British citizen (1862); died in London (1888).
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