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Beginning in November 2018, 120 images from the Loewentheil China Photography Collection were shown in Beijing at the Tsinghua University Art Museum in the museum's first photography exhibition, Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection. The largest exhibition of 19th century photographs to be staged in China, Vision and Reflection attracted 70,000 viewers in its first two months, supporting Loewentheil's claim that "the public is eager for exposure to the visual and artistic record preserved by Chinese photography." Su Dan, Vice Director of the museum, described the exhibit as "a must-see exhibition for scholars who are interested in literature, history, folklore and architecture. ... a grand feast of historical culture and artistic aesthetics,” while a young Chinese viewer remarked to the Xinhua News Agency that "The photos are more powerful and truthful than written words when transmitting history. Through them, I feel as if I can touch history." In an interview with CNN about the exhibition, Loewentheil expressed a similar sentiment: "photography is the greatest preserver of history ... because it was simultaneous with the technological revolutions that were to change everything." Loewentheil was also interviewed on China Global Television Network program "The Point with Liu Xin," where he discussed the exhibition as well as the past, present, and future of photography in China. Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection remained on display through March 31, 2019.

Photographs from the Collection have been featured in the Cornell exhibitions Dawn’s Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography and The Lincoln Presidency: The Last Full Measure of Devotion. On the occasion of the retirement of Carl A. Kroch University Librarian Anne Kenney after 30 years at Cornell University Library, Mr. Loewentheil donated a unique photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner to the library in Kenney's honor.

Stephan Loewentheil's martial status is Single. He has three children: Nate, Kara, and Jacob. Loewentheil's oldest son, Nate, worked in the White House as a special assistant to Barack Obama, and ran in the 2018 elections for the Maryland House of Delegates. His daughter Kara is a Master certified Life Coach and host of the podcast UnF*ck Your Brain, which has been downloaded over 3.5 million times since its launch in 2017. Jacob, his youngest son, is an accomplished author and antiquarian who published The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger's Revelations in Photography, on the life and art of 20th Century portrait photographer Marcel Sternberger, in 2016.

In 2015, Loewentheil purchased the eight-page Book of Esther from the Gutenberg Bible for $970,000 at Sotheby's in New York City, with the goal of preserving it as a whole rather than selling individual pages. He also purchased, on behalf of a client, a complete set of the Daniel Bomberg Babylonian Talmud for $9.3 million in 2015, the highest price ever paid for an item of Judaica at auction.

The Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection has been exhibited both in the United States and abroad. The Collection's extensive holdings of early Peking photographs by Thomas Child were exhibited in November 2015 at the China Exchange in London, and in 2016 at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College in New York. Child, a British gas engineer sent to Peking to work for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service in 1870, brought his camera with him throughout his travels and created the most comprehensive photographic portrayal of 19th century Peking. A selection of 30 photographs from the Historical Photography of China Collection, including Felice Beato's rare portrait of the Old Summer Palace, taken just before its destruction by Anglo-French troops in the Second Opium War, was displayed as part of Asia Week New York in March 2017.

Loewentheil has been active in condemning theft and fraud in the rare book industry, and has been a featured speaker in conferences (including "The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril" at the British Library in 2015) and articles on the subject.

Loewentheil owns the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection, the largest private collection of Chinese historical photographs. The Collection, which China Global Television Network proclaimed as "the largest, rarest, and said to be the most valuable of its kind in the world," is an invaluable window into nineteenth century Qing Dynasty China, before the upheavals of modernity would change the country and its people irrevocably. One highlight of the building of the collection over three decades was the acquisition of an album of 56 albumen prints by Felice Beato, which included some of the earliest photographic images of China, at an auction in Pennsylvania in 2014.

Loewentheil has maintained a close relationship with his alma mater, Cornell University, and, through multiple donations, has established the Beth and Stephan Loewentheil Family Photography Collection, the centerpiece of the Cornell Library's collection of fine-art photography. The Loewentheil Collection, which numbers over 16,000 images, "includes 19th- and 20th-century photographs organized in several major groups: Daguerre ephemera and early photographic processes, African-American collection, Mathew Brady and the Civil War, Lincoln, Native Americans and the West, hand-colored photography, and cartes de visite." In 2014, Loewentheil donated a rare Civil War-era photograph album, containing 265 photographs from noted Civil War photographer Mathew Brady and others, to the Cornell University Library, where it was celebrated as the library's eight millionth volume.

Loewentheil's personal collection includes some of the oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscript scrolls, including the earliest Torah scroll sheet of the Exodus story, the so-called "London Manuscript." The manuscript contains the text of Exodus 9:18–13:2 (the Seventh through Tenth plagues, the Passover, and the Exodus). Loewentheil loaned the manuscript to the Israel Museum in 2010, where it was exhibited at the Shrine of the Book alongside another section from the same Torah scroll, the Ashkar-Gilson Manuscript, containing the text of Exodus 13:19 to 15:27.

Loewentheil's photography collection is rooted in early photographic methods of the 19th century – daguerreotypes, cartes de visite, albumen prints, tintypes, and cyanotypes. Much like his rare book collection, Loewentheil's photography collection has a historical theme, featuring rare portraits of some of the most notable Americans of the 19th century - John D. Rockefeller, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, and John C. Calhoun, among many others.

In 2013 Loewentheil returned two rare books on early American exploration and travel that had been stolen from the National Library of Sweden in the 1990s. The theft was not uncovered until 2004, when a library patron requested to view a rare map of the Mississippi River that was discovered to be missing. Soon after, library employee Anders Burius was arrested in a case that made international headlines. Further investigations revealed that Burius had stolen dozens of books, including a 1651 first edition of Hobbes' Leviathan and a 1633 collection of John Donne sonnets, from the library between 1995 and 2004, although the recovery of these volumes was hindered by Burius's suicide five days after his arrest.

Years before the theft was discovered, Loewentheil unwittingly acquired two of the National Library of Sweden's stolen volumes – a 19th-century illustrated text of the Mississippi River and a 17th-century French book on the Louisiana territory by Louis Hennepin, – in an auction at Ketterer Kunst in Germany before selling them to a client in 1998. Loewentheil did not become aware of their theft until fourteen years later, when a stolen copy of the 1597 Wytfliet Atlas – the earliest printed atlas of the Americas – was offered for sale in New York, prompting the Royal Library to finally release a list of missing books. Loewentheil immediately set to work tracking down the books in order to purchase them back himself and donate them to the Royal Library, which he accomplished in 2013.

In 2012, Loewentheil established The Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs: a group of 645 photographs depicting African-American life from 1860 to the 1960s, to be housed at Cornell University Library. The collection – which focuses on images of everyday African-American life and includes cartes de visite, stereoviews, hand-painted tintypes, cyanotypes, and daguerreotypes – was fully digitized in February 2017 and is available to view in its entirety on the library's website.

Loewentheil has collected many images from the early American photographer Mathew Brady. Brady's whole-plate daguerrotype portrait of American politician and states-rights advocate John C. Calhoun, one of Loewentheil's most notable acquisitions, set a new record for the photographer upon its sale for $338,500 in a Sotheby's auction on April 6, 2011. The Calhoun portrait, along with a rare image of Red Cross founder Clara Barton sitting with soldiers and a personal photograph album compiled by Mark Twain, were featured in the 2011 Cornell University Library exhibition "Dawn's Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography." Another Brady photograph from the Loewentheil Collection, "Collected for Burial" - taken at the Battle of Antietam - was loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their 2014 traveling exhibition, "Photography and the American Civil War", along with Brady's own studio camera.

In 2010, Loewentheil purchased one of the few remaining privately owned copies of William Shakespeare's First Folio at a Sotheby's auction in London, one of multiple copies of the First Folio he has owned over the years. Charles Darwin has long been of particular interest to Loewentheil, who purchased a leaf of Darwin's original manuscript of On the Origin of Species for $250,000 at Sotheby's in 2016.

Loewentheil has been a supporter of the New York Public Library, and of the Library's annual Young Lions Fiction Award for over a decade. Since its inception in 2001, the award, given each spring to an author under the age of 35 of a novel or collection of short stories, has honored such luminary young writers as Molly Antopol, Karen Russell, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Uzodinma Iweala. Fellow donors to the award's endowment include Ethan Hawke, Russell Abrams, and Rick Moody.

Loewentheil is a leading collector of and dealer in Edgar Allan Poe books and manuscripts. In 1991, he acquired the first edition of Poe's first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, one of twelve extant copies. In 1992, Loewentheil published The Poe Catalogue: A descriptive catalogue of the Stephan Loewentheil collection of Edgar Allan Poe material. He was awarded an honorary membership by the Poe Studies Association in 2009 for his contribution to Poe scholarship.

Loewentheil has assisted in the recovery of stolen rare books and artifacts several times over the course of his career. In 1990, Loewentheil was involved in the discovery and return to the University of Pennsylvania of several stolen early editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A part-time employee of the Van Pelt Library had stolen nearly 120 rare books, including multiple quarto editions of Shakespeare plays, an incunable edition of Dante's Divine Comedy, a first edition of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, and many others. Loewentheil encountered the books at Bauman Rare Books in Philadelphia, where his suspicions were aroused that they might be stolen. After researching their provenance, he discovered that they were the property of the University of Pennsylvania, and contacted the FBI, leading to the thief's arrest and the return of the books to the Van Pelt Library.

During the 1980s, Loewentheil began selling books to the White House, through a relationship with Joseph Verner Reed Jr., Chief of Protocol to President George H.W. Bush. Reed suggested that antique books on American history and culture be given as official state gifts to foreign dignitaries, and sought the help of Mr. Loewentheil to procure these gifts. Upon Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to Washington in 1990 to sign the Chemical Weapons Accord, he was presented with an original 1804 edition of John Marshall's biography of George Washington, which was acquired from the 19th Century Rare Book and Photograph Shop. Loewentheil continued this relationship with the White House through the Obama administration.

Born in Brooklyn in 1950, Stephan Loewentheil was raised in New Rochelle, New York, where he attended New Rochelle High School. In 1968, he enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College, where he graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history. In 1975, Loewentheil graduated from Cornell University Law School with a Juris Doctor.