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 JORG JORNANDES 685 (2 vols., Leipsic, 1846-'9), tragedies and com- edies, and translations of Sophocles and of Shakespeare's poems and several of his plays. His most famous poetical production is Demi- urgoa, ein Mysterium (3 vols., 1852-'4), and he has written an epic, in a peculiar old German metre, entited Sigfridsage, portions of which he has recited in various cities of Germany, as well as of the United States, which country he visited in 1872. JORG, Joseph Edmund, a German author, born at Immenstadt, Bavaria, Dec. 23, 1819. He studied theology at Munich, and was for sev- eral years amanuensis of Dollinger. In 1847 he became connected with the bureau of ar- chives, and in 1852 succeeded Guido Gorres as editor of the Historisch-politische Blatter. In 1865 he became a member of the second Bavarian chamber, to which he has been re- peatedly reglected, and in 1867 of the customs parliament. He is a prominent partisan of ul- tramontane views, and his works include Ge- sehiehte des grossen Bauernkriegs (Freiburg, 1850), Geschichte des Protestantismus in seiner neuesten Entwickelung (2 vols., 1857), and Geschichte der social-politischen Parteien in DeittsMand (1867). JORG. I. Johann Christian Gottfried, a German physician, born at Predel, near Zeitz, Dec. 24, 1779, died in Leipsic, Sept. 20, 1856. He was professor of obstetrics in the university of Leipsic from 1810 till his death. His works relate chiefly to female physiology and pa- thology, and include a series of manuals which passed through several editions. II. Ednard, son of the preceding, born in Leipsic, Jan. 19, 1808. After taking his degree of M. D. he travelled extensively, went to the United States in 1837, and spent several years in Cuba observing tropical diseases, on which he pub- lished several works. Subsequently he re- turned to the United States and practised in Illinois and in Pennsylvania. JORGEA'SON, Jorgen, a Danish adventurer, born in Copenhagen in 1779, died in New South Wales about 1830. He belonged to the celebrated family of watchmakers named Jur- gensen, was apprenticed at 14 years of age to the master of an English collier, and subse- quently, it is said, served in the British navy as a midshipman, and Anglicized his name into Jorgenson. In 1807 he sailed from Copenha- gen in command of a privateer, and was cap- tured and aken to England, where he was put upon his parole. He succeeded in inducing a London merchant named Phelps to freight a vessel for the purpose of opening a trade with Iceland. Jorgenson arrived at Reykiavik in January, 1809, but was forbidden to land his cargo. He then seized a Danish brig, which had arrived with needed provisions, and the alarmed authorities permitted him to land his goods, but forbade trade with him. Restoring the captured brig, and leaving his supercargo with his goods, he returned to England, but came back with Phelps in June. Five days before his arrival the governor, Count Trampe, had agreed with the captain of the British sloop of war Rover to allow trade with Brit- ish subjects during the war; but this agree- ment not being carried out, Phelps imprisoned the governor on his ship, making a prize of his brig the Orion; and the next day Jorgenson assumed the government of Iceland, declaring its independence of Denmark, and seized the public money chest, containing 2,700 rix dol- lars. On July 11 he proclaimed himself pro- tector of Iceland, appointed a new flag, and re- pealed all restrictions upon trade. His author- ity was acknowledged by an ecclesiastical syn- od, and by the people generally. He equipped an army of eight men, confiscated all Danish property on the island, established a battery to defend Reykiavik, and seized a Danish vessel which came into the harbor. But in August the British sloop of war Talbot arrived at the island, and, upon the representations of the Danish merchants and Count Trampe, her captain sent both Jorgenson and Trampe to England. The former opened a correspondence with the ad- miralty, but it having transpired that he was a prisoner of war who had broken his parole, he was confined for a time in Tothill Fields prison. In 1811 he published a work entitled "State of Christianity in Otaheite, and a Defence of the Gospel against Modern Antichrists." Upon the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars he trav- elled on the continent, and in 1817 published " Travels in France and Germany in 1815-'17." He subsequently fell into bad habits, was con- victed of theft, and sentenced to transportation for life, and in 1825 was sent to New South Wales. Previous to his departure from Eng- land he published " The Religion of Christ is the Religion of Nature ; written in the condemned cells of Newgate, by Jorgen Jorgenson, late Governor of Iceland " (8vo, London, 1827). JORNANDES, or according to the oldest MSS. JORDANES, a Gothic historian, who lived about the middle of the 6th century. He was at first one of the notaries or rather secretaries of the king of the Alans, who inhabited Moesia, but became a convert to Christianity, and em- braced the monastic state. It has been said, but without proof, that he was bishop of Crotona. He wrote De Getarum rive Gothorum Origine et Rebus Gestis, which is chiefly an extract from Gassiodorus's lost " History of the Goths." Notwithstanding its many shortcomings and incorrect style, it is an important work. He left also, under the title De Regnorum et Tem- porum Successione, a synopsis of universal history, which has been generally printed at the end of his Gothic history. The first edi- tion of the latter is that published by Peutin- ger with Warnefrid's "History of the Lom- bards" (Augsburg, 1515). It has been fre- quently reprinted in various historical collec- tions ; a correct edition is to be found in Mura- tori's Scriptores Rerun Italicarum; the latest edition, with critical notes, is that of Closs (Stuttgart, 1861).