From Chessbase.com: “Johann Löwenthal was one of the first masters to play a match against Morphy after the latter’s arrival in London in 1858. Morphy won nine games, lost three and played two draws.”
Paul Charles Morphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1837, and by watching games of chess as a young child he intuitively grasped both the tactical and positional elements of the game. He routinely beat the best players of New Orleans before he was ten years old, and when the great Hungarian master Löwenthal in 1849 paid a visit to the Morphy home, curious to test the reputed prodigy, he found himself losing to the 12-year-old.