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lature (in Berlin) for the district Sorau-Guben, and for the term 
of 1873-1876. The dream of his youth was now fulfilled, and 
he could, with a lighter heart than before, devote his labors to the 
development of liberal institutions. He joined the National- 
Liberal party. 
During the summer of 1876, while he was staying at Blanken- 
burg (Thliringen) on a holiday trip, he had a first paralytic stroke. 
He recovered from this, but after that time these attacks on his 
iron constitution recurred several times, until at last his once so 
bright spirit yielded to the inexorable decrees of Fate. For this 
gifted man, after years of toil, a brighter life’s evening was not to 
be. His grave disorder overpowered him, and he sought succor and 
rest in the “ Diaconissinnen-Haus ” in Halle on the Saale, hoping 
thus to escape the mental derangement which he felt like a dark 
shadow over him. From a fresh paralytic stroke he was not to 
recover. Since the beginning of March, 1879, he remained confined 
to his bed; an exceedingly painful nephritic ailment aggravated 
his condition, and, in spite of the tenderest care, he expired on the 
21st of April, after several da} r s of unconsciousness. He was buried 
on the 24th in Halle, the place where, half a century before, in the 
fulness of youthful strength and spirits, he had laid the foundation 
of his vast scientific knowledge. Bowed down by grief, his widow 
and the three sons, survivors of seven children, stood around his 
coffin; they must have found consolation in the thought that thou¬ 
sands of friends, of political partisans, of naturalists, and of pupils 
of all classes shared their sorrow and honored his memory. 
XYI CHARACTERIZATION OF LOEW AS A DIPTEROLOGIST 1 
In view of my purpose of giving an account of Loew’s life and 
work, I was fortunate in finding his biography already written by 
I)r. E. Krause, who knew him well and could appreciate him as a 
man and as a citizen. During the twenty-nine years (1850-1879) 
1 The numbers appended to Loew’s publications in this “ Characterization ” are 
those of Hagen’s “ Bibliotheca,” as far as No. 124 ; beyond that, the Nos. 125-222 are 
those of my “ Verzeichniss der entomologischen Schriften von H. Loew,” etc., in the 
Verli. zool.-bot. Gesellsch., Wien, 1884, p. 455-404 (104, 1884). 
