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Isidor Loewenthal, the son of Jewish parents, was born around 1827 in Posen, Prussia (now Poznan, Poland).
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Revolt of the Sepoys: Reprinted From the Princeton Review, January, 1858; With Additional Notes (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Revolt of the Sepoys: Reprinted From the Princeton Review, January, 1858; With Additional Notes The year 1857 will be henceforth known as the year of the Sepoy Revolt. It was the most striking event of the year in the eastern world, and no event of the year in any part of the world has been of deeper interest in the eyes of thoughtful men. This revolt, therefore, with its kindred topics, may well receive our consideration in this Review. I A detailed narrative of this remarkable mutiny will not be expected in our pages. The distressing particulars have filled our newspapers, and though presented in a fragmentary form, have doubtless conveyed a correct general idea of what has taken place. The journals whose titles are given above, may be consulted by those who wish to' see how these events ap peared to intelligent observers on the ground. The Friend of India will be found to contain a weekly record of these events, the more satisfactory, because this journal has the highest reputation for its spirited summaries of news, and its able dis eussions of all Indian questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Isidor Loewenthal
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He received at home and at school the early education of the orthodox Jewish boy, chiefly in the Hebrew language, literature, and religion. Later he attended a gymnasium where he studied with great success classical literature, modern languages, science, philosophy, and music. He received from Lafayette College in 1848 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later that of Master of Arts. He also entered Princeton Theological Seminary. He distinguished himself there as a theological student. His articles were published in the Biblical Repository, and at graduation in 1851 he read a paper on "India as a Field of Missions. "
Career
At seventeen Loewenthal was engaged for a time in clerical service in a mercantile house. He shared the liberal political opinions of a growing number of young men of his day and associated with certain of them in their agitation for governmental reform. He published anonymously in the summer of 1846 a poem adverse to the State. His authorship thereof was soon detected by the police, and he chose to flee from Posen to escape arrest. He secured at Hamburg passage on an English ship bound for America and landed at New York in the fall of the year.
Finding no other employment, he took to peddling "notions" throughout the countryside about Philadelphia. Chance took him to the home of the Reverend S. M. Gayley, a minister of Wilmington, Delaware, who saw in the peddler a man of extraordinary qualities. Through the good offices of this clergyman and his son in Lafayette College, Loewenthal secured a post on the college faculty. Beginning in January 1847, he taught Hebrew and German. He was tutor in Latin, also, during the year 1847-1848. In the spring of 1847 his mind turned favorably toward Christianity.
In the autumn he professed conversion, was baptized by the Rev. Mr. Gayley, and was received into membership in the Rockland, New Jersey, Presbyterian Church, of which Gayley was then the minister. The years 1848-1850 he spend as a teacher of languages in the collegiate school at Mount Holly, Pennsylvania. He served during 1854-1855 as a tutor in Princeton College.
On April 18, 1855, he was ordained by the Presbytery of New York, and in the following August he sailed from New York for a missionary career in India under the auspices of his Church. His first year in India was spent in language study at Rawal Pindi. Thereafter he worked at Peshawar among the Afghans in particular. Although frequently in danger both to property and life, in this turbulent northwestern region, he gave diligent and effective attention to evangelism and translation. He preached in Pashtu, Persian, and Urdu, and knew other tongues, also, including Arabic. He made at least one tour in Kashmir and familiarized himself with Kashmiri.
He died at the age of thirty-eight--shot in his own garden after midnight by his watchman who may have mistaken him for a robber. He left certain unpublished manuscripts, including Pashtu translations of portions of the Hebrew Old Testament.
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Isidor Loewenthal was known mainly for his missionary service in India. He had completed and published (in Great Britain) a Pashtu version of the New Testament and before his untimely death he had nearly finished a Pashtu dictionary. It has been said that probably no other foreigner at that time in India had so thorough a knowledge of Asiatic literature and so intimate an acquaintance with the manners and customs of the people of the land and with Oriental politics as he. He had also contributed articles to British and American periodicals, including the Foreign Missionary magazine of his own Board.
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Revolt of the Sepoys: Reprinted From the Princeton Review, January, 1858; With Additional Notes (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Revolt of the Sepoys: Reprinted From the Pri...)
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Revolt of the Sepoys: Reprinted From the Princeton Review, January, 1858; With Additional Notes (Classic Reprint)
References
- Memorials of Foreign Missionaries of the Presbyterian Church U. S. A (Classic Reprint)
- Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume
- Men of Might in India Missions: The Leaders and Their Epochs, 1706-1899 (Classic Reprint)
- A Manual of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (Classic Reprint)
