Johann Christoph (von) Jordan (died 1748) was a German bureaucrat and antiquary. He wrote in

Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

, and his most important work was a history of the

Slavic peoples The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Southeast ...

, ''De Originibus Slavicis'', published in 1745. Originally from the

Rhineland The Rhineland ( ; ; ; ) is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly Middle Rhine, its middle section. It is the main industrial heartland of Germany because of its many factories, and it has historic ties to the Holy ...

, Jordan served as a senior official in the Bohemian Court Chancery (''Böhmische Hofkanzlei''). R. J. W. Evans, ''Austria, Hungary and the Habsburgs. Essays on Central Europe, c.1683–1867'' (Oxford, 2006), 49.

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