Wilhelm Loewenthal

Wolff Wilhelm Lowenthal ( – ) was a Silesian-born, naturalized French doctor of medicine.

Lowenthal was born in Rybnik, Province of Silesia, now in Poland. He graduated from the University of Berlin, before travelling to the Caucasus to continue his medical research. At the same time, he was Professor at the University of Geneva at its campus in Lausanne, Switzerland.

He corresponded regularly with the Central Literary Bureau in Berlin. On 17 June 1878, he had an important audience with Victor Hugo, where he pledged himself to France as his home country to great public aclaim. This took place at the International Literary Congress of 1878, held at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in 1879.

After that meeting he met . They met again many years later, when Maillard retranslated the first series of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale. Provided by Wikipedia