LOEWE

Louis . b. of Jewish parents at Zülz Pru ian Silesia 1809; ed. at univ. of Berlin, Ph. D.; travelled in the East 1836–9; lecturer on oriental languages to Duke of Su ex 1839; went to the East 13 times as secretary with sir Moses Montefiore 1839–74; principal of Jews’ College, Finsbury sq. London 1856; opened a Jewish boarding school at Brighton 1858; naturalised in England 12 July 1862; principal of the Judith theological college at Ramsgate 1868–88; member of Numismatic Soc. 27 Feb. 1845 and a contributor to the Chronicle 1856 etc.; translated J. B. Levinsohn’s Efés Dammim Conversations at Jerusalem 1841; author of A dictionary of the Circa ian language 1854; edited Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore 2 vols. 1890. d. 53 Warwick road, Maida hill, London 5 Nov. 1888. Morais’s Eminent Israeli tes (1880) 208–11; Numismatic Chronicle 3 Series vol. ix Proceedings 22–3 (1889).