Henri Jordan
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Henri Jordan was a German
scholar of Roman
topography in the 19th century.
He worked together with Christian Huelsen
and Rodolfo Lanciani
and is most famous for his 2 volume study of Roman topography, Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum.
Jordan was born in Berlin
and died in Königsberg
, where he had been a professor since 1867.
He edited Ludwig Preller
s Römische Mythologie (Berlin 1881).
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
scholar of Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
topography in the 19th century.
He worked together with Christian Huelsen
Christian Huelsen
Christian Karl Friedrich Hülsen was a German architectural historian of the classical era who later changed to studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.-Biography:Hülsen was born in Berlin...
and Rodolfo Lanciani
Rodolfo Lanciani
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography, and among his many excavations was that of the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum....
and is most famous for his 2 volume study of Roman topography, Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum.
Jordan was born in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and died in Königsberg
Königsberg
Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...
, where he had been a professor since 1867.
Works
- Kritische Beiträge zur Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache ( Berlin 1879)
- M. Catonis praeter librum de re rustica quae extant (Leipzig 1860)
- Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum ( Berlin 1870-85, 2 vol.)
He edited Ludwig Preller
Ludwig Preller
Ludwig Preller was a German philologist and antiquarian.Born in Hamburg, he studied at Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at the University of Dorpat, which, however, he resigned in 1843. He afterwards spent some time in Italy, but settled in...
s Römische Mythologie (Berlin 1881).