Sylvester Jordan

Francis Sylvester Jordan ( born December 30, 1792 in omes in Axams, Tirol, † April 15, 1861 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

After grammar school at ( today ) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich in 1812 and studies of philosophy, law and Kameralwissenschaften at the University of Vienna and the University of Landshut Jordan was appointed professor of constitutional law at the University of Marburg to a doctorate in law and philosophy as well as a lecturer job in Heidelberg 1821. There he officiated 1825/26 as rector. In 1827 he was first appointed to a Hessian Government Commission on the review of the legislation. He was instrumental in the drafting of the Constitution of 1831, thereby creating the Hessian national assembly.

Soon after, he came because of his journalistic work in conflict with the state government, especially after he was first elected in 1830 in the assembly of the estates of the Electorate. 1831/32 he scored in the Kassel State Parliament the staunch liberals. 1832, the holiday for the exercise of parliamentary mandate, he was denied and in 1833 he was under police surveillance. In 1839 he was arrested for alleged involvement in the Frankfurt Guard Storm 1833 in remand and sentenced in 1843 to five years imprisonment and detained on the Marburg Castle. 1845 lifted the top of Appeals Kassel that judgment, and Jordan was released.

In 1848 he was a member of the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament as Vice President and was appointed to the Siebzehnerausschuss. From July 18th 1848 to May 20, 1849, he was the successor Heinrich Henkel's deputy for the district Fritzlar in the Frankfurt National Assembly. There he was one of the fractions Württemberg court and Landsberg. At the same time, he served as Federal Minister representatives of the Provisional Electoral Hesse in central power.

In 1850 he was a member of the Arbitration Court of the Erfurt Union Parliament and was subsequently retired.

Jordan was taken in 1819 " on the high seas " under the sponsorship of a Scottish Grand Master in Freemasonry; on September 9, 1820, he was adopted by the Masonic Lodge Socrates to steadfastness in Frankfurt am Main.

Works

  • Experiments on general state law, in a systematic order and with reference to policy, Marburg 1828th
  • Textbook of general and German constitutional law. First Section, the basic principles of general constitutional law, historical and general introduction to the German constitutional law and the German Federal law including, Cassel 1831st
  • About the principles of which assumed in the drafting of the chur Hessian constitution was, in: books of history and statecraft (1832 ), vol 1, pp. 193-220.
  • Actenstücke, in part, with notes, on the question whether the §. 71 of the Hessian constitution document is also applicable to the deputies of the State University? In addition to an introduction historical and legal contents and prefaces, together with remarks on the legal discussion of the above question from a Prussian Rhine jurists (Bonn 1833), Offenbach am Main in 1833.
  • Expert's utterance on the question whether the Count to Isenburg - Büdingen, Excellency, the law of the country estates of the Electorate of Hesse in due? For an explanation of §. 63 Nro. 2 of the Constitution - Urk, in:. Archive for the latest legislation of all German States 6 (1835 ), pp. 249-267.
  • Cassel, in: Carl von Rotteck / Carl Theodor Welcker (ed.), State - dictionary or Encyclopedia of Political Science. Vol 3, Altona 1836, pp. 286-308.
  • Jordan, in: Carl von Rotteck / Carl Theodor Welcker (ed.), State - or lexicon Encyclopedia of Political Science. Vol 8, Altona 1839, pp. 546-553.
  • The Jesuits and Jesuitism. Leipzig and Altona 1839 ( digitized at google books)
  • Self-defense in the Criminal investigation conducted against him, sympathy with treason on. In addition to the appellation writing his defender, Upper Court lawyer CF Schantz at Marburg, and a memorandum justifying the discomfort and at the same time a contribution to the theory of Indicienbeweise comprising of the accused Dr. Sylvester Jordan himself, Mannheim 1844.
  • The Jesuits in Tyrol. Submitted by a Tyrolean. [= Sylvester Jordan ], Heidelberg 1845.
  • Walking from my prison. Frankfurt am Main 1847 ( digitized at google books)
  • Conversations about church and state. Recorded by J. Steverlys. Frankfurt 1848 ( digitized version, pdf file)
  • Political memories from the time of his imprisonment from 1839 to 1845. From the literary Discounts Conditions of his daughter Henriette basement Jordan, ed. v. Paul Tesdorpf, in: The New Century 4 (1912 ), pp. 4-8, 19 ff, 44 f, 54-57, 81 f, 92 ff, 104 f, 115-118, 130, 139 ff, 153, 174 ff, 189 f, 200 f, 211 ff, 224 ff

Swell

  • Judgment in the test case against Professor Dr. Sylvester Jordan, Dr. Scheffer, Dr. Eichel Berg, Dr. Hach, Eberhard von Breidenbach & c. for attempted treason. In addition to the grounds of decision, 2nd edition, Marburg 1844.
  • Sylvester Jordan: Illustrirte newspaper, Vol 5 (1845 ), pp. 345-349.
  • Ferdinand Trinks / Gustav Julius Sylvester Jordan's life and suffering: according to his own writings and some other sources. With Jordan 's portrait. Leipzig:. Naumburg, 1845 ( digitized )
  • Paul Wigand: Jordan's defense. An addendum to its self-defense. Bassermann, Mannheim 1844 ( digitized version, pdf file)
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