Henri Jordan (30 September 1833,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

– 10 November 1886,

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...

) was a German classical scholar who specialized in

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

archaeological topography. He was a son-in-law to historian

Johann Gustav Droysen Johann Gustav Bernhard Droysen (; ; 6 July 180819 June 1884) was a German historian. His history of Alexander the Great was the first work representing a new school of German historical thought that idealized power held by so-called "great" men. ...

. He attended

Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German ''Joachimsthalsches'' or ''Joachimsthaler Gymnasium''), was a princely high school (German ''Fürstenschule'') for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War ...

in Berlin under the directorship of

August Meineke Johann Albrecht Friedrich August Meineke (also ''Augustus Meineke''; ; 8 December 179012 December 1870), German classical scholar, was born at Soest in the Duchy of Westphalia. He was father-in-law to philologist Theodor Bergk.

, then studied from 1852 to 1856 at the universities of

(with

Moritz Haupt Moriz or Moritz Haupt (27 July 1808 – 5 February 1874), was a German philologist. Biography He was born at Zittau, Lusatia, Saxony. His early education was mainly conducted by his father, Ernst Friedrich Haupt, burgomaster of Zittau, a man of ...

) and

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

. In 1861 he obtained his habilitation, and during the same year, undertook a study trip to

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. In 1867 he was appointed professor of

classical philology Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

.A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany
by

John Edwin Sandys Sir John Edwin Sandys ( "Sands"; 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English classical scholar. Life Born in Leicester, England on 19 May 1844, Sandys was the 4th son of Rev. Timothy Sandys (1803–1871) and Rebecca Swain (1800–1853). Livin ...

He was part of a group of distinguished late 19th-century scholars of the Roman Forum that included

Christian Hülsen Christian Karl Friedrich Hülsen (born in Charlottenburg, 29 November 1858; died in Florence, Italy, on 19 January 1935) was a German architectural historian of the classical era who later changed to studying the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. ...

and

Rodolfo Lanciani Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1 January 1845 – 22 May 1929) was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography. Among his many excavations was that of the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum. Lanciani earned LL.D. ...

. He is most famous for his two-volume study of Roman topography,
Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum
'. This important work includes a critical edition of the regionary catalogues of ancient Rome, the ''Notitia'' and the ''Curiosum''. He was the author of significant writings on ancient Roman religion and also made contributions examining the history of the

Latin language Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of t ...

(1879).

Published works

# ''Quaestionum Catonianarum capita duo''. dissertation, (Berlin 1856). # ''M. Catonis praeter librum de re rustica quae extant'', (

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

1860). # ''Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum'', (Berlin 1870-85, 2 volumes). # ''Kritische Beiträge zur Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache'', (Berlin 1879). # 1886.
Der Tempel der Vesta und das Haus der Vestalinnen
'. Weidmann. He edited

Ludwig Preller Ludwig Preller (15 September 1809 – 21 June 1861) was a German philologist and antiquarian. Biography Born in Hamburg, he studied at Leipzig, Berlin and Göttingen, in 1838 he was appointed to the professorship of philology at the University ...

's ''Römische Mythologie'' (3rd edition, 2 volumes, 1881), and with

Franz Eyssenhardt Franz Eyssenhardt (6 March 1838 – 30 November 1901) was a German classical philologist born in Berlin. He studied philology in Berlin, and subsequently became an instructor at the Werderscher gymnasium. In 1868-69 he performed research in ...

, published an edition of '' Scriptores historiae Augustae ab Hadriano ad Numerianum'' (1864).Henri Jordan
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Henri 1833 births 1886 deaths German classical scholars Archaeologists from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the University of Königsberg Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium alumni