LOEWENTHAL, Isidor

[s. 419] : Born in Posen, Prus1829, of Jewish parents; died at At an early age he showed great aptitude for language and philology. In 1851 he became a Christian, and in 1852 entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton, taking high rank in philology and writing imporHe was tant articles for tlie Biblical Repertory. tutor in Princeton College in 1855; ordained by York an evangelist, and as the Presbytery of New sailed in 1856 as a mi ionary of the Presbyterian Board for Northern India. He acquired a knowledge of Persian, Arabic, Kashmir i, Hindu stan i, and the Pushto, the language of the Afghans. sian Poland, Peshawur in 1864. He could speak Persian fluently. He completed a translation of the New Testament into the Pushto, which is now in circulation among the Afghans. He was shot one evening in 1864 in his own garden by his watchman, a Sikh, who alleged that he mistook Dr. Loewenthal for a He had nearly completed a dictionary robber. of the Pushto language, and left a collection of Pushto works in manuscript. 419