Julius Jordan (archaeologist)

Babylon, The Lion and Julius Jordan (1933/34)

Julius Jordan (born October 27, 1877 in Cassel , † February 2, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German archaeologist and building researcher from the Middle East .

Life

After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Kassel , he came to study architecture at the then structural engineering department of the Dresden University of Technology in the spring of 1896 . After its graduation around 1902, he initially worked as a government building manager in Chemnitz . By Walter Andrae , he was in the German 1904 excavations in Assur involved and stayed in this task eight years. In the meantime he received his doctorate in 1910 under Cornelius Gurlitt in Dresden . He completed his dissertation “Structural Elements of Assyrian Monumental Buildings” with distinction.

From 1912 to 1913 Julius Jordan undertook the first excavations together with Conrad Preusser on behalf of the German Orient Society in Uruk -Warka. After participating in the First World War and working in an architecture firm in Munich , he was only able to resume his archaeological activity in Iraq in 1926. From 1928 to 1931 he continued his excavations in Uruk-Warka. From 1931 to 1939 he worked in Iraqi museum services. During the Second World War he worked as a consultant at the German Archaeological Institute and as a visiting professor for building history at the Technical University of Berlin . He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf in Berlin.

Fonts

• Construction elements of Assyrian monumental buildings. Dresden 1910 (= dissertation).
• Excavation reports. In: Communications of the German Orient Society. 1906-1913.
• Uruk-Warka. 51. Scientific publication of the German Orient Society, 1928 (reprint Osnabrück 1969).
• Preliminary report on the excavations undertaken by the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft in Uruk-Warka. In: Treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Born in 1929, born in 1930 and born in 1931.
• The excavations of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft in Uruk-Warka 1930/1931. Short report. sl1933.
• A guide through the ruins of Babylon and Borsippa. Baghdad 1937.
• The Middle East. Stuttgart 1942.

literature

• Heinrich J. Lenzen:  Jordan, Julius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , pp. 601 f. ( Digitized version ).