Inspirational Quotes by Herbert Loewe (British Semitic Scholar)

Herbert Loewe (1882–1940,) fully Herbert Martin James Loewe, was a British scholar of Semitic languages and Jewish culture. The focal point of Jewish Oxford during his professional career, he was a lecturer in Oriental Languages at Exeter College-Oxford and later at Cambridge.

Loewe was a graduate of Queens’ College-Cambridge. He was Chief English Master at the Schools of the Alliance at Cairo and Abyassiyyeh, Egypt, and the author of Kitab el Ansab of Samani. Loewe was a lecturer in Semitic languages at Exeter College-Oxford 1913–31, where he had installed three tablets in honor of Oxford Jewish heritage.

Loewe was subsequently Curator of Oriental Literature, University Library, Cambridge, and Reader in Rabbinics, Cambridge, from 1931 to his death. Loewe’s first son, Raphael Loewe (1919–2011,) was a scholar of Hebrew at University College London, and his second son Michael Loewe is a Cambridge scholar of Chinese.

Loewe Collection at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies houses 5,000 items collected by Herbert Loewe and his elder son Raphael Loewe. The collection includes offprints, unpublished typescripts of Hebrew poetry translations, a wide variety of printed matter related to Jewish studies in late antiquity and medieval times, and modern Anglo-Jewish history.

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