In 1829 Albert left home for schools in Leipzig, Jagendorf, and Olmütz, and eventually attended the University of Vienna, where he began a systematic study of Hebrew and Arabic.
[3] On the opening on 27 January 1842 of the reform West London Synagogue of British Jews, Löwy became one of the first two ministers; David Woolf Marks was the other.
[3] In 1870, under the guidance of Löwy and Benisch,[4] the Anglo-Jewish Association was formed in London to champion the cause of persecuted Jews and to promote Jewish education in the Middle East.
He also undertook a fact-finding mission to Constantinople in 1889, and stimulated Western Jewry's interest in the Bene Israel community of India.
Löwy also won repute as a teacher of Hebrew, and among his pupils were Archibald Tait, archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquess of Bute, and Thomas Chenery, editor of The Times.