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Jacob A. Loewen was a Mennonite missionary, a linguist and an anthropologist. He was born in the Orenburg Mennonite settlement in Russia. In 1929 the family migrated to Canada. In 1945 Jacob married Anne Enns in Yarrow, BC. In 1947 he received a B.A. in humanities from Tabor College, Kansas. In 1952, he received an M.A. from the University of Washington and finally a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1958, also from the University of Washington. From 1947–1957, the couple served as missionaries in Columbia. Their assignment was to live with the Wounaan indigenous people in Noanama, learn the local language and resolve the Choco language into written form in Columbia and Panama. In 1964, Loewen began working in Lima, Peru as a translations consultant with the American and United Bible Societies. From 1979 to 1984 he worked in West Africa. Loewen also taught languages and anthropology at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, and during the summers worked with the Waunan in Panama. He frequently published articles on language and mission in journals, and authored several books.

Born: 1922
Died: 2006