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OBITUARY NOTICE OF PROFESSOR LOEW 
Posen a large field of activity as a teacher of mathematics and 
natural history 1 ; at the same time he directed his attention to the 
study of entomology, and especially to the, at that time, much 
neglected order of two-winged insects. To this specialty he re¬ 
mained true during his life-time, and became later on one of the 
first authorities on the subject. He first attracted attention by his 
“ Horae anatomicae,” a work of the most minute research 
in the anatomy of insects, and especially of their genital organs. 
His next publications appeared in the so-called “ Programmes ” 
of the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium. 
His long-cherished wish to make a journey of exploration to the 
East was finally fulfilled. He undertook it (1841-1842) in com¬ 
pany with the celebrated geographer, Iviepert, and the philologist 
and geographer, August Schoenborn, who afterwards became his 
brother-in-law, but at that time was Professor in the same Institu¬ 
tion, and known as author of several Latin school-books. Loew was 
unfortunately not in a position to publish the results of his journey 
independently. He communicated a portion of them to the ento¬ 
mologist Burmeister, and also to Alex. v. Humboldt. The great¬ 
est part he made use of in his later publications. All his life he 
longed for travel in distant countries, but in this respect cir¬ 
cumstances did not favor him. 
In the midst of his labors the closing years of the first half of 
the century brought on a period of political troubles, and found 
him, in the advanced post which he occupied, 2 an energetic 
champion of German nationality. German to the core, he boldly 
withstood the separatist longings of the Poles. The confidence of 
his fellow-citizens in him was shown by his election to the first 
German Parliament in Frankfort a. M. in 1848, when lie was only 
forty years old. Always abstaining, according to his habit, from 
noisy manifestations, but all the more zealously using a latent in¬ 
fluence, he devoted himself here untiringly to the support of 
Gagern’s Imperial Party. The appalling news of a case of cholera 
1 Several of his scholars became in due time scientific celebrities; for instance: 
Prof. Kuno Fischer, and the mathematician Professor Konujsherger, both of whom I 
have known in Heidelberg. — Ostkn Sacken. 
2 Posen, near the frontier of Poland. 
