Johann Christoph (von) Jordan (died 1748) was a German bureaucrat and antiquary. He wrote in
Latin
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 the ...
, and his most important work was a history of the
Slavic peoples, ''De Originibus Slavicis'', published in 1745.
Originally from the
Rhineland
The Rhineland (german: Rheinland; french: Rhénanie; nl, Rijnland; ksh, Rhingland; Latinised name: ''Rhenania'') is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
Term
Historically, the Rhinelands ...
, Jordan served as a senior official in the Bohemian Court Chancery (''Böhmische Hofkanzlei'').
[ R. J. W. Evans, ''Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs. Essays on Central Europe, c.1683–1867'' (Oxford, 2006), 49.]
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External links
De Originibus Slavicis
1748 deaths
18th-century Latin-language writers
18th-century German male writers
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