Samuel Ephraim Jordan

Samuel Ephraim Jordan (* 1738 or 1739 in Harburg ; † November 22, 1788 in Otterndorf ) was a German lawyer and official .

Life

Samuel Jordan studied around 1749 at the University of Halle , University of Jena and around 1757 in Göttingen . From 1761 to 1773 he was an official clerk in Harste near Göttingen.

He was then a court trainee in Göttingen at the Leineberg court until 1780 . His passion was physics and he is said to have been friends with Professor Georg Lichtenberg , so that in 1779/1780 he even carried out experiments with him at the University of Göttingen .

From 1781 to 1785 he was under the bailiff Friedrich Ludwig August von dem Bussche bailiff in Harburg. He was then until his death bailiff in Otterndorf and assessor at the higher court there .

Married to Johanna Caroline Christine Graetzel and had six children with her.

His one son August Christian Jordan (1779-1844) was also a lawyer, councilor and bailiff in Reval . His older son Georg Wilhelm Jordan († 1834), like his father, later became a bailiff.

plant

De essentia dei, quae ex eo, quod aliquid est, efficitur , 1779

Trivia

His name appears in 1764 in the birth certificate of a son of Johann Friedrich Ludloff .

literature

Rudolf Friedrich Ludloff : History of the Ludolf-Ludloff Family , Roßteutscher, 1910, pp. 41–42
Ewald Jordan: Family tree of the Jordan family from Nordhausen , Steffenhagen, 1914
Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics: Lichtenbergs Hörer , Wallstein Verlag, 2006, p. 332
Harburger Jahrbuch , Druckhaus Köthen, 23, 2012, pp. 151–152

Individual evidence

^ Chronicle of the state of Hadeln: along with interesting excerpts from the history of the offices of Ritzebüttel, Bederkesa and Neuhaus, the state of Wursten and the state of Kehdingen: with a title head. u. a chart . 1843, p. 557 ( google.de [accessed February 15, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Jordan, Samuel Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and bailiff
DATE OF BIRTH	1738 or 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH	Harburg
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1788
Place of death	Otterndorf

[1] Chronicle of the state of Hadeln: along with interesting excerpts from the history of the offices of Ritzebüttel, Bederkesa and Neuhaus, the state of Wursten and the state of Kehdingen: with a title head. u. a chart . 1843, p. 557 ( google.de [accessed February 15, 2018]).