Jordan of Quedlinburg (Latin: Jordanus de Saxonia; c. 1300 – 1380) was an Augustinian hermit, influential writer and preacher.
[1] He studied at the Augustinian seminaries in Bologna (1317–1319) and Paris (1319–1322)[2] under Henry of Friemar, Hermann of Halle and Prosper of Reggio Emilia.
[1] He graduated with the degree of lector and was appointed to a lectureship at the Augustinian studium generale in Erfurt, where he taught from 1327 at the latest until 1333.
[2] He lectured in various other Augustinian houses in Germany and in 1341 was appointed provincial of Saxony, an office to which he was reappointed continuously until 1351.
His spirituality was influenced by German mysticism, but he attacked the excesses of the ascetic movement.