# Henri Jordan

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{{Short description|German classical scholar (1833–1886)}}
'''Henri Jordan''' (30 September 1833, [Berlin](/source/Berlin) – 10 November 1886, [Königsberg](/source/K%C3%B6nigsberg)) was a German classical scholar who specialized in [Roman](/source/Ancient_Rome) [archaeological](/source/archaeological) topography. He was a son-in-law to historian [Johann Gustav Droysen](/source/Johann_Gustav_Droysen).

He attended [Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium](/source/Joachimsthalsches_Gymnasium) in Berlin under the directorship of [August Meineke](/source/August_Meineke), then studied from 1852 to 1856 at the universities of [Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin) (with [Moritz Haupt](/source/Moritz_Haupt)) and [Bonn](/source/University_of_Bonn). In 1861 he obtained his [habilitation](/source/habilitation), and during the same year, undertook a study trip to [Rome](/source/Rome). In 1867 he was appointed professor of [classical philology](/source/classical_philology) at the [University of Königsberg](/source/University_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg).<ref name=JS>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IFL5bcOayfcC&pg=PA200 A History of Classical Scholarship: The Eighteenth Century in Germany] by [John Edwin Sandys](/source/John_Edwin_Sandys)</ref><ref>[http://beta.teuchos.uni-hamburg.de/TeuchosWebUI/prosopography/tx-container-prosopography.action;jsessionid=A4DF1B55CC90B3DA32DC1EE04F19510C?%23DONT_BOOKMARK_THIS_URL%23%23TARGET%23%23%2FTeuchosWebUI%2Fprosopography%2Ftx-frame-show-biography%23%23PARAMS%23%23pid=teuchosx%3AJordan.Heinrich# Teuchos – Zentrum für Handschriften- und Textforschung]</ref>

He was part of a group of distinguished late 19th-century scholars of the [Roman Forum](/source/Roman_Forum) that included [Christian Hülsen](/source/Christian_H%C3%BClsen) and [Rodolfo Lanciani](/source/Rodolfo_Lanciani).<ref>{{ill|Lee Sorensen|fr|Sorensen, Lee}} (ed.), [https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lancianir.htm "Lanciani, Rodolfo &#91;Amedeo&#93;"] at Dictionary of Art Historians (website). {{Webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160315065459/https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/lancianir.htm |date= 2016-03-15 }}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0icXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA243 The Roman Forvm: Its History and Its Monuments] by Christian Hülsen</ref> He is most famous for his two-volume study of Roman topography, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=iI0KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 Topographie der Stadt Rom im Alterthum]''. This important work includes a critical edition of the [regionary catalogues](/source/%3Ait%3ACataloghi_regionari) of ancient Rome, the ''Notitia'' and the ''Curiosum''. He was the author of significant writings on [ancient Roman religion](/source/ancient_Roman_religion) and also made contributions examining the history of the [Latin language](/source/Latin_language) (1879).<ref name=JS/>

==Published works==
# ''Quaestionum Catonianarum capita duo''. dissertation, (Berlin 1856).
# ''M. Catonis praeter librum de re rustica quae extant'', ([Leipzig](/source/Leipzig) 1860).
# ''Topographie der Stadt Rom im Altertum'', (Berlin 1870-85, 2 volumes).
# ''Kritische Beiträge zur Geschichte der lateinischen Sprache'', (Berlin 1879).
# 1886. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=vN8_AAAAYAAJ&dq=henri+jordan+1886&pg=PA3 Der Tempel der Vesta und das Haus der Vestalinnen]''. Weidmann.
He edited [Ludwig Preller](/source/Ludwig_Preller)'s ''Römische Mythologie'' (3rd edition, 2 volumes, 1881), and with [Franz Eyssenhardt](/source/Franz_Eyssenhardt), published an edition of ''[Scriptores historiae Augustae ab Hadriano ad Numerianum](/source/Scriptores_Historiae_Augustae)'' (1864).<ref>[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011589215 Scriptores historiae Augustae ab Hadriano ad Numerianum] HathiTrust Digital Library</ref><ref>[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Henri_Jordan Henri Jordan] de.Wikisource</ref>

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