Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan (Hannover, December 7, 1861 - January 12, 1959) was a German entomologist.
Jordan studied at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen. In 1893 he worked in Lionel Walter Rothschild's museum in Tring, where he specialized in beetles, butterflies and fleas. Jordan published more than 400 papers, many of them in collaboration with Charles and Walter Rothschild. He himself described 2575 new species, and another 851 in collaboration with the Rothschilds.
Jordan was the initiator of the first international entomology congress in 1910. He was a member of the Royal Society, and from 1929 to 1930 President of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Externe link
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