Brockmanniana. Reiner Brockmanni vanemate matusetrükised
Brockmanniana. The printed funeral sermons on the occasion of the death of Reiner Brockmann’s parents

Summary/Abstract: Based on biographical data in two funeral sermons printed in 1625 and 1627, the ­article introduces the family of the poet and future professor of Greek at the Gymnasium in Tallinn, Reiner Brockmann (1609-1647), and, more specifically, the social circle of his parents, notably his father, the Reverend Reiner Brockmann (1568-1626). It appears that those who expressed their condolences in the form of funeral poems in Latin dedicated to the deceased spose of Reverend Brockmann, Margareta Scheff­ter (1570-1625), were not only associated with the Faculty of Religion of ­Rostock University, but were also united by a certain spiritual openness to early Pietism. It even seems that exposure to, and perhaps some sympathy for Pietist views continued in the Brockmann lineage through four generations. Further, the funeral sermons make it possible, inter alia, to clarify both the time of Reverend Brockmann’s death, June 23, 1626, and the place of birth of his son, the younger Brockmann: the small town of Schwaan in the Duchy of Mecklenburg. The poem written in Greek by him on the occasion of the death of his father is also republished and briefly commented on.

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