Hermann Jordan (medical doctor)

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Hermann Jordan (born April 19, 1808 in Wetzlar , † August 8, 1887 in Saarbrücken ) was a German medic .

Life

At a young age he suffered from his lungs, looked for a place high up in Switzerland and spent a few weeks in the village of Imfeld near the Lengenbach mine in the Swiss Binntal in the following years . Here he developed his interest in mineralogy and put together a collection of Swiss minerals, which Paul Heinrich von Groth later acquired for the University of Strasbourg.

He discovered the "regeneration of crystals". In 1849, during repair work on the blast furnace of the Fischbach iron smelter near Saarbrücken, a magnificent crystal crust was discovered, which he recognized as zinc oxide .

In 1851 he was elected to the medical council in Saarbrücken .

The mineral jordanite (Pb 14 (As, Sb) 6 S 23 ) was named after him.

Fonts

  • Crystallized zinc oxide from a blast furnace. In: Meeting reports of the mathematical and natural science class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Volume 11, Issue I – V, Vienna 1853, p. 8 ( available online at archive.org )
  • With Hermann von Meyer : About the crustaceans of the coal formation of Saarbrücken. In: Palaeontographica. 4th volume, 1st delivery (1854), pp. 1-16

literature

  • Medicinal and scientific necrology for the year 1887. In: Virchows Archive Volume 111, Number 2, February 1888
  • Paul Guthörl: The Saarbrücken Sanitary Council Dr. med. Friedrich Jordan as a natural scientist and petrification collector in: History and Landscape. Local supplement of the Saarbrücker Zeitung (1962) No. 27.

Web links

Wikisource: Hermann Jordan  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jordan Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann ( Memento from July 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Saarländische Biographien, accessed July 23, 2016)
  2. ↑ a b bodemschat.nl - Jordanite mineral description ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF 689.5 kB)
  3. ^ DF Heyneman: Report on the Senckenberg Natural Research Society in Frankfurt am Main. June 1887 to 1888, p. 5 ( available online at archive.org )
  4. ^ Hermann Jordan: Crystallized zinc oxide from a blast furnace. In: Meeting reports of the mathematical and natural science class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Volume 11, Book IV, Vienna 1853, p. 8 ( available online at archive.org )
  5. ↑ Jordanite , In: John W. Anthony, Richard A. Bideaux, Kenneth W. Bladh, Monte C. Nichols (Eds.): Handbook of Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America , 2001 ( PDF 61.9 kB )
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1887
Place of death Saarbrücken