Leo Jordan

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Leo Jordan or Leopold Hermann Jordan (born September 28, 1874 in Paris ; † July 28, 1940 in Munich ) was a German Romanist, Medievalist, philosopher and linguist.

life and work

Jordan studied at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and became active in the Corps Guestphalia Würzburg in 1895 . With a doctorate in Wendelin Foerster at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn , he was in 1899 for Dr. phil. PhD. In 1905 he completed his habilitation with Hermann Breymann at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The LMU appointed him associate professor in 1911 . As a result, he came into scientific opposition to Breymann's successor Karl Vossler . In 1933 he was ousted because of his Jewish descent. In 1940 he committed suicide in Munich.

Fritz Neubert was one of his students .

A younger brother and brother of the corps is the zoologist Hermann Jacques Jordan (1877–1943).

Other works

  • (Ed. And translator) Poems by a Lombard nobleman of the quattrocento , Dresden 1905
  • (Translator from the French of the 14th century.) The people's book by Fulko Fitz Warin , Leipzig 1906
  • About Boeve de Hanstone , Halle an der Saale 1908 (Supplements to the magazine for Romance philology 14)
  • (Ed.) Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde ou les États et les Empires de la Lune , Dresden 1910
  • (Ed.) Voltaire, Tancrède. Rédaction primitive d'après le manuscrit de Munich avec les variantes de l'édition définitive , Strasbourg 1913
  • Old French elementary book. Introduction to the historical study of the French language and its dialects , Bielefeld 1923 (356 pages)
  • The art of conceptual thinking , Munich 1926 (French: Les Idées, leurs rapports et le jugement de l'homme, Geneva 1926)
  • School of abstraction and dialectics. New ways of conceptual thinking , Munich 1932 (Spanish: Los Elementos linguísticos de la lógica, Córdoba, Argentina 1938)

literature

  • Stefanie Seidel-Vollmann: The Romance Philology at the University of Munich (1826–1913), Berlin 1977
  • Franz Lebsanft : A German-Jewish fate: the philologist and linguist Leo Jordan (1874-1940) , in: German and Austrian Romanists as persecuted by National Socialism , ed. by Hans Helmut Christmann and Frank-Rutger Hausmann in conjunction with Manfred Briegel, Tübingen 1989, pp. 157–175, 287–288
  • Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Devoured by the vortex of events". German Romance Studies in the “Third Reich”. 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 233, 285, 728
  • Utz Maas : Persecution and emigration of German-speaking linguists 1933-1945. Entry on Leo Jordan (accessed: April 13, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 140 , 194
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the old French adventure novel "Cristal et Clarie"
  3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: The saga of the four Haimons children (Romanesque research 20)
  4. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 205 , 76
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Leopold Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist, Medievalist, philosopher and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1940
Place of death Munich