DAMASCUS AFFAIR Handwritten Notes DR. LOUIS LOEWE
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DIARY OF LOUIS LOEWE Damascus Affair Orient - Middle East - Ottoman Empire in manuscript1840 ---------------------------------------------------- The Damascus Affair Diary of Dr. Louis Loewe July - November 1840Foreword by Rabbi Schemtob Profatory note bu Herbert Loewe (his grandfather is Louis Loewe)Intorduction by : Paul GoodmanWritten in RAMSGATE Theological Collage November 1940 ---------------------------------------------------- 107 Pages Diary of Alexandria between 28 to 79 pages Leondas between 80 to 81 pagesSyria between 81 to 85 pageson Boat between 86 pagesConstantinople between 87 to 101 pageson boat between 102 to105 12x9 inch Original and fine condition only 60-61 page is missing ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Louis LOEWE English Orientalist and theologian; born at Zülz, Prussian Silesia, 1809; died in London 1888. He was educated at the yeshibot of Lissa, Nikolsburg, Presburg, and at the University of Berlin. Stopping at Hamburg on his way to London, he was entrusted with the classificationof the Oriental coins in the Sprewitz cabinet. Soon after his arrival in London he was introduced to the Duke of Sussex, who in 1839 appointed him his "Orientalist." He then traveled in the East, w he studied Arabic, Persian, Coptic, Nubian, Turkish, and Circassian. In Cairo he was presented to the khedive,
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