APPLETONS'
CYCLOPÆDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
LODGE, Giles Henry, translator, b. in Boston,
Mass., 13 March, 1805; d. there, 17 Dec., 1888.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1835, and at the
medical school in 1828, and passed his life chiefly
in Boston. He was an enthusiastic student of
the Greek language and art, and published
translations of Johann Wincklemann's “History of
Ancient Art among the Greeks” (4 vols., Boston,
1849-'73), and Baron von Steinberg's “Breughel
Brothers” (1854). He was the author of several
medical essays, and left in manuscript a “Dictionary
of Aristophanes.” —
His nephew, Henry Cabot,
senator, b. in Boston, Mass., 12 May, 1850, was
graduated at Harvard, and at the law-school, and
in 1875 was given the degree of Ph. D. for his
thesis on the “Land
Law of Anglo-Saxons”
(Boston, 1877).
He was university
lecturer on American
history in 1876-'9,
edited the “North
American Review”
in 1873-'6, and the
“International
Review” in 1879-'81.
He was unsuccessful
as a candidate
for congress in 1884,
but was elected in
1886, being re-elected
in 1888, 1890, and
1892, and in 1893
became U. S. senator.
In 1890 he was
a delegate at large
to the Republican national convention. Mr. Lodge
has been an overseer of Harvard since 1884, and
is a member of various scientific and historical
societies. He was vice-president of the commission
that superintended the celebration of the
framing of the U. S. constitution, in 1887. He
has published “Life and Letters of George Cabot”
(Boston, 1877); “Short History of English Colonies
in America” (New York, 1881); lives of
Alexander Hamilton (Boston, 1882), Daniel Webster
(1883), and George Washington (1888) in the
“American Statesmen” series; “Studies in
History” (1884); “History of Boston” (New York,
1891); “Historical and Political Essays” and a
volume of speeches (Boston, 1892); in conjunction
with Theodore Roosevelt, “Hero Tales from
American History” (New York, 1895); “Certain
Accepted Heroes and other Essays” (1897); and
“The Story of the Revolution” (1898). He has
edited two series of “Popular Tales”; a volume
of selected “Ballads and Lyrics” (Boston, 1881);
and “The Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton,”
including his private correspondence and
many hitherto unpublished documents, with an
introduction and notes (9 vols., New York, 1885).
Senator Lodge's term of service will expire in
March, 1899.
LOEFLING, Peter, Spanish-American botanist,
b. in Tollsforsbro, Sweden, 31 Jan., 1729; d. in the
mission of Amaracure, South America, 22 Feb., 1756.
He was a pupil of Linnæus, and, when the Spanish
ambassador requested the latter to select a botanist
for service in the American colonies, the professor
at once named Loefling, who left Stockholm in
1751. He remained two years in Spain, and then
embarked with other scientists for South America
in February, 1754. He had entire charge of the
department of natural history, and was assisted
by two young Spanish doctors. His premature
death was considered a great loss to natural history,
and especially to botany. Linnæus believed the
loss irreparable. The manuscripts of Loefling,
which were found after his death, were preserved
by his two assistants. The work that gives an
account of his scientific labors in Spanish America
is entitled “Iter hispanicum” (Stockholm, 1758;
Swedish translation by Linnæus; German translation
by Kolpin, Berlin, 1766; English translation
by J. G. A. Forster, 1771). Linnæus gave the
name Loeflingia to a plant of the caryophillaceous
family, one species of which grows in Spain and
the other in Spanish America.
LOEWENTHAL, Isidor, missionary, b. in Posen,
Prussian Poland, in 1826; d. in Peshawur,
India, 27 April, 1864. He was educated in the Jewish
faith, and, after completing his studies in the
gymnasium of Posen, entered a mercantile establishment
as a clerk. In consequence of a political
poem that he published he was compelled to flee
the country. He arrived in New York in the
autumn of 1846, and attracted the attention of a
clergyman in Wilmington, Del., through whose
efforts he was appointed professor of German in
Lafayette college. He quickly mastered the
English language, entered the senior class in the
following year, acting at the same time as tutor of
French, German, and Hebrew, and was graduated
in 1848. He then taught for four years at Mount
