Hermann Jordan (theologian)

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Hermann Arnold Siegfried Jordan (born July 30, 1878 in Sandau (Elbe) , † June 17, 1922 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Hermann Jordan was the son of the Quedlinburg pastor Gustav Hermann Jordan.

He attended schools in Quedlinburg and received his Abitur there in 1896 . In the same year he matriculated to study theology , philosophy and history at the University of Erlangen . In the summer semester of 1897 he continued his studies at the University of Greifswald .

From 1899 to 1903 he was employed as a private tutor in Deyelsdorf in Pomerania and taught at the local elementary school; During this time he passed his first theological exam on April 24, 1900 and his second on August 7, 1902 in Stettin ; shortly before that he did his doctorate with Theology of Novatian's newly discovered sermons at the University of Greifswald on June 14, 1902 , obtaining a Lic. theol.

On May 1, 1903, he began a practical year at the Cathedral Candidate Foundation in Berlin, and on March 1, 1904, he became second adjunct and leader of the Old Testament exercises. His ordination took place on March 6, 1904 and on March 15, 1904 he became the third cathedral preacher.

After July 23, 1904, a dissertation for New Testament and church history habilitated , he was in the same year Associate Professor of New Testament and church history at the University of Greifswald.

On October 15, 1907, as successor to Friedrich Wiegand , he was appointed associate professor for church history and patristics at the University of Erlangen, and in 1914 he turned down another call at the University of Vienna . On May 1, 1914, he became a full professor of church history, patristics, Christian art archeology and mission history .

Hermann Jordan remained unmarried throughout his life.

Memberships

  • Hermann Jordan was a member of the Black Castle Association Sedinia in Greifswald and the Uttenruthia in Erlangen.
  • In 1917 he became a member of the Society for Franconian History .
  • In the Association for Bavarian Church History , which had been founded by Theodor von Kolde , after Kolde's death in 1913 he took over the editing of the periodical Contributions to Bavarian Church History , and in 1917, the year of the Reformation, he founded the series of sources and research on Bavarian church history .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The theology of Novatian's newly discovered sermons . Naumburg a. S .: Print by Lippert, 1902.
  • Rhythmic Prose in Early Christian Latin Literature: A Contribution to Early Christian Literary History . Leipzig: Dieterich, 1905.
  • Jesus in the struggle of the parties of the present . Stuttgart: Printing and publishing of the Chr.Belser'schen Verlagshandlung, 1907.
  • A newly discovered font by Frenaeus . Berlin: Fatherland. Publishing house & art institute, 1907.
  • The age and origin of the Latin translation of the major work of Irenaeus . Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1908.
  • Jesus and the modern images of Jesus . Lichterfelde-Berlin, 1909.
  • The ideal of women of the New Testament and the oldest Christianity . Leipzig Deichert 1909.
  • Heinrich Joseph Vogels ; Theodor Schermann ; Karl Holl ; Hermann Jordan; Ivar August Heikel; The harmonistics in the Gospel text of the Codex Cantabrigiensis . Leipzig: JC Hinrichs'sche, 1910–1913.
  • History of early Christian literature . Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1911.
  • A dialogue about the Reformation of the Church from 1404 . Gain; Leipzig, 1911.
  • Sources and literature on church history.
    • Volume 1: The old church . Erlangen: Junge, 1911.
    • Volume 2: The Middle Ages . Erlangen: Young, 1912.
    • Volume 3: Reformation and Counter-Reformation . Erlangen: Young, 1912.
  • Celsus : The oldest comprehensive critique of Christianity . Leipzig Dörffling & Franke 1912.
  • Recent church history since the Reformation . Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1913.
  • The Mission of Christianity and the World Politics of Nations . Lichterfelde-Berlin: Runge, 1913.
  • Theodor Kolde: a German church historian . Leipzig: Deichert, 1914.
  • Is there an old “Christian” art? Leipzig 1916.
  • Luther's conception of the state: a contribution to the question of the relationship between religion and politics . Munich, 1917.
  • Culture and state . Berlin Voss 1917.
  • Gottfried Thomasius : Professor of Protestant Theology; 1802-1875 . Munich: Duncker & Humblot, 1919.
  • Hermann Jordan; Hermann Clauss; Simon Schoeffel ; Wilhelm Knappe; Johannes Bergdolt; Karl Schornbaum: Sources and Research on Bavarian Church History .
    • Volume 1: Reformation and learned education in the Margraviate of Ansbach-Bayreuth . 1917.
    • Volume 2: The introduction of the Reformation in Schwabach 1521–30 . 1917.
    • Volume 3: The sovereignty of the imperial city of Schweinfurt . 1920.
    • Volume 4: Wolf Dietrich von Maxbrain and the Reformation in the Hohenwaldeck rule . 1920.
    • Volume 5: The free imperial city of Windsheim in the age of the Reformation . 1921.
    • Volume 6: The Teutonic Order Commandery Rothenburg ob der Tauber . 1921.
    • Volume 7: History of the Parish Alfeld . 1922.
  • Hermann Jordan; Christian Bürckstümmer : Reformation and learned education in the Margraviate of Ansbach-Bayreuth: A prehistory of the University of Erlangen . Leipzig; Erlangen: Deichert, 1922.
  • About German need and the German future: thoughts and essays . Leipzig; Erlangen: W. Scholl, 1922.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 5 . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-094653-6 ( google.de [accessed on March 16, 2020]).
  2. ^ History • Association for Bavarian Church History. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Streets in Erlangen. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Hermann Arnold Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Sandau (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1922
Place of death gain