Johann Ludwig Jordan (teacher)

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Johann Ludwig Jordan (born June 6, 1771 in Göttingen , † May 1, 1853 in Osterode am Harz ) was a German physician, teacher and naturalist .

Life

Johann Ludwig Jordan studied at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1791 , received the 1st prize of the medical faculty on June 4, 1799 for his writing Disquisitio chemica evictorum regni animalis ac vegetabilis elementorum and worked as a doctor in Clausthal from 1800 .

On June 1, 1801, Johann Ludwig Jordan was absent from Göttingen due to several publications. phil. PhD .

In 1802 he was initially assigned the business of Wardein of the Clausthal Mint on an interim basis , before he was appointed to the Ordinary Münzwardein of the Clausthal Mint in 1814 . From 1821 Johann Ludwig Jordan became a chemistry teacher and from 1829 also a metallurgy teacher at the Clausthal Mountain and Forestry School . In 1845 he retired.

Johann Ludwig Jordan wrote numerous publications on chemistry, mineralogy and mining and metallurgy and published the magazine for iron and metallurgy together with the mining official Traugott Leberecht Hasse .

In 1799 he was first a full member of the Societatis Physicae Privatae Gottingensis and then was absent in 1800 . He was an honorary member of the Natural History Society of Hanover and in 1804 became a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen .

Recent research results

The book collection of the Göttingen university professor and Reformed pastor Lüder Kulenkamp (1724–1794), which with over 9,000 manuscripts, copies, incunabula and prints from 1501 onwards forms the fourth largest private scholarly library in Göttingen in the 18th century, is only available through the auction catalog printed in 1796 and two, Bullet-pierced copies with buyer and price information are documented. In her dissertation published in 2014, Annette Pozzo establishes a connection between a buyer registered in the auction catalog as "Jordan", who acquires just over 70 titles, and Johann Ludwig Jordan, whose publications all appeared after this period with the subject areas of the works acquired at the auction show numerous matches.

Fonts

  • Disquisitio chemica evictorum regni animalis ac vegetabilis elementorum . Göttingen 1799 ( digitized version )
  • Mineralogical and chemical observations and experiences . Johann Christian Dieterich, Göttingen 1800 ( digitized version )
  • Mineralogical mining and smelting travel notes collected excellently in Hesse, Thuringia, the Rheine and in the Seyn-Altenkirchen area . Heinrich Dieterich, Göttingen 1803 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 332
  • Annette Pozzo: Membra disiecta. Content and impact of the library of the Göttingen professor Lüder Kulenkamp (1724–1794) (= Berlin works on library science, vol. 25), also a dissertation at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Logos, Berlin 2014, p. 167

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Ludwig Jordan  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Johann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, teacher and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1853
Place of death Osterode am Harz