Wilhelm Loewenthal


Wolff Wilhelm Lowenthal was a Polish-born, naturalized French Doctor of Medicine.
Born in Rybnik, Poland, after graduating from the University of Berlin, Lowenthal, went to the Caucasus to continue his medical research. At the same time, he was Professor at the University of Geneva, in its branch at the Lausanne, Switzerland.
He corresponded regularly with the Central Literary Bureau in Berlin. On 17 June 1878, he had an important audience with Victor Hugo, to great public acclaim, where he pledged himself to France as his home country. In the Congrès littéraire international de 1878, held at Théâtre du Châtelet, in 1879.
After that meeting, where he met Georges Maillard, they met again many years later, when Maillard retranslated the first series of the Association littéraire artistique internationale an organisation that was set up after, and in honour to, the Peace Declaration of World War I.

History

But differences of views between Loewenthal and Baron Hirsch meant this never came about, and they agreed to separate in November 1891. It's well understood, from banking records, that Lowenthal was in Berlin in 1891, but then went to Brussels. A colony was established, called Moisés Ville, the first colony of the JCA.

Death

It has been proven by banking records that Lowenthal died in Berlin two years later, after leaving Brussels.

Legacy

In the colony, Lowenthal's name graces the principal thoroughfare.