Background
Loman was the son of a minister in the Dutch Lutheran church.
Loman was the son of a minister in the Dutch Lutheran church.
Leiden University.
He was a professor from 1856 till 1893. In his later period he belonged to the Dutch radical critics. He started studying theology in 1840 and became a minister in 1846.
In 1856 he became a professor at the Lutheran seminary in Amsterdam.
Loman gradually lost his eyesight in the beginning of the 1870s, but continued working. From 1877 he also was a theology professor at the University of Amsterdam until his retirement in 1893.