JORDAN, WILHELM (18191904)

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JORDAN, WILHELM (18191904) , German poet and novelist, was born at Insterburg in

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Prussia on the 8th of February 1819. He studied, first theology and then philosophy and natural science, at the universities of

Konigsberg

KONIGSBERG (Polish Krolewiec)

and Berlin. He settled in

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

as a journalist; but the democratic views expressed in some essays and the volumes of poems Gcocke and Kanone (1481) and Irdische Phantasien (1842) led to his expulsion from Saxony in 1846. He next engaged in literary and tutorial

work

WORK

in Bremen, and on the outbreak of the revolution, in February 1848, was sent to Paris, as correspondent of the Bremer Zeitung. He almost immediately, however, returned to Germany and, throwing himself into the political fray in Berlin, was elected member for Freienwalde, in the first German

parliament

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

at Frankfort-on-Main. For a short while he sided with the Left, but soon joined the party of von Gagern. On a vote having been passed for the

establishment

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement,
late
- LATE
Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make
stable
- STABLE
)

of a German navy, he was appointed secretary of the committee to deal with the whole question, and was subsequently made ministerial councillor (Ministerialrat) in the naval department of the government. The naval project was abandoned, Jordan was pensioned ann afterwards resided at Frankfort-on-Main until his death on the 25th of June 1904, devoting himself to literary

work

WORK

, acting as his own. publisher, and producing numerous poems, novels. dranas and translations.
among his best known works are: Demiurgos (3 vols., 18521854), a " Mysterium," in which he attempted to dea with the problems of human existence, but the work found little favour; Nibelunge, an epic poem in alliterative verse, in two parts, (1) Sigfriedsage (18671868; 13th ed. 1889) and (2) Hildebrants Heimkehr (1874; loth ed. 1892)--in the first

part

PART

he is regarded as having been remarkably successful; a tragedy, Die Wittwe des Agis (1858); the comedies, Die Liebesleugner (1855) and Durchs Ohr (187o; 6th ed. 1885); and the novels Die Sebalds (1885) and Zwei Wiegen (1887). Jordan also published numerous translations, notably Homers Odyssee (1876; 2nd ed. 1889) and Homers Ilias (1881; 2nd ed. 1894); Die Edda (1889). He was also distinguished as a reciter, and on a visit to the United States in 1871 read extracts from his works before large audiences.

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