OBITUARY NOTICE OF PROFESSOR LOEW 
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XV PROF. FR. HERMANN LOEW 
An Obituary Notice by C. St. [Carus Sterne] 1 
A brief notice among the parliamentary news of the “ Vossische 
Zeitung ” announces the placid death, after a long illness, of the 
distinguished pedagogue, naturalist, and pioneer of German unity, 
Hermann Loew , in Ilalle on the Saale, on April 21 [1879]. A short 
notice about the life and life-work of the deceased will not be un¬ 
welcome to his numerous pupils, political partisans, and friends. 
He belonged to a family which, for centuries past, had followed the 
career of civil functionaries or of divines. He was born on the 19th 
of July, 1807, in Weissenfels [a short distance south of Halle. 
Osten Sacken], as eldest son of a functionary in the Department 
of Justice in the Duchy of Saxony, who afterwards became “ Ge- 
heimer Regierungsrath ” in Prussia. From the conventual school 
of Rossleben he passed to the University of Halle, where he devoted 
himself assiduously to various studies in mathematics, philology, 
and natural history, and thus laid the foundation for his many- 
sided capacity for the profession of teaching. In the beginning of 
the third decade of this century, he went to Berlin, and gave les¬ 
sons in different schools of higher grade, for some time also in the 
military school (Kadetten-Scliule). Occasionally, he held the posi¬ 
tion of a private tutor of young men, for instance, of Prince Biron, 
of the celebrated oculist Graefe, etc. It characterizes his strength 
of will that, at the beginning of his career, he vowed never to touch 
a warm morsel until he had paid off the debts contracted during the 
penurious years of his studies, and that he actually carried out this 
vow. 
Pie was soon afterwards appointed superior teacher of the Fred¬ 
erick William Gymnasium in Posen, and married there (1834) the 
daughter of “ Ober-Prediger ” Ehricht, a favorite preacher at that 
time. He had made her acquaintance as a student, and for forty- 
live years she was for him a faithful wife and nurse. He had in 
i Translated from the Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1879, p. 419-421. Cants 
Sterne is the pseudonym and anagram of the well-known German author, Dr. Ernst 
Krause. 
