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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 See also:

EXPULSION (Lat. expulsio, from expellere)

expulsion from See also:

Saxony in 1846. He next engaged in See also:

LITERARY

literary and tutorial See also:

WORK

work in See also:

BREMEN

Bremen, and on the outbreak of the revolution, in February 1848, was sent to See also:

Paris, as correspondent of the See also:

BREMER, FREDRIKA (r8or–1865)

Bremer Zeitung. He almost immediately, however, returned to See also:

Germany and, throwing himself into the See also:

POLITICAL

political fray in Berlin, was elected member for See also:

FREIENWALDE

Freienwalde, in the first German See also:

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

parliament at See also:

FRANKFORT

Frankfort-on-See also:

Main. For a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short while he sided with the See also:

LEFT

Left, but soon joined the party of von See also:

GAGERN, HANS CHRISTOPH ERNST, BARON VON (1766-'852)

Gagern. On a See also:

VOTE

vote having been passed for the See also:

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

establishment of a German See also:

NAVY

navy, he was appointed secretary of the See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee to See also:

DEAL

deal with the whole question, and was subsequently made ministerial councillor (Ministerialrat) in the See also:

NAVAL

naval See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the See also:

government. The naval project was abandoned, Jordan was pensioned See also:

ann afterwards resided at Frankfort-on-Main until his See also:

DEATH

death on the 25th of See also:

JUNE

June 1904, devoting himself to literary work, acting as his own. publisher, and producing numerous poems, novels. dranas and See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations. among his best known See also:

WORKS

works are: Demiurgos (3 vols., 1852–1854), 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 See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, in two parts, (1) Sigfriedsage (1867–1868; 13th ed. 1889) and (2) Hildebrants Heimkehr (1874; loth ed. 1892)--in the first See also:

PART

part he is regarded as having been remarkably successful; a tragedy, See also:

Die Wittwe See also:

des See also:

AGIS

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 See also:

EDDA

Edda (1889). He was also distinguished as a reciter, and on a visit to the See also:

UNITED

United States in 1871 read extracts from his works before large audiences.

End of Article: JORDAN, WILHELM (1819–1904)

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