Hermann Fock

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Hermann Fock , also Focke (born September 7, 1634 in Lübeck ; † May 20, 1701 there ) was a merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

Heinrich Fricke: Marienkirche zu Lübeck, pillar epitaph with the epitaph Fock in the center of the picture (around 1915)

As a businessman, Hermann Fock was a member of the Lübeck Schonenfahrer . In 1680 he is mentioned as a patron of Lübeck church music. In 1692 he was elected to the Lübeck council. He received after his death in 1701 in 1703, a wooden rococo - Epitaph in the Marienkirche in Lübeck by his son, the doctoral lawyers Heinrich Focke set that the air raid on Lübeck burned 1,942th One illustration has survived as a painting by the painter Heinrich Fricke and shows the state around 1915; it was considered lost and has been in a north German private collection since 2010. The baroque poet Nathanael Schlott dedicated his collection of poems "A handful of poetic leaves" to him in 1702 (along with other Lübeck patricians).

Hermann Fock was (last?) Married to Dorothea geb. Bulmering, who was first married to Hinrich Eckhoff, who last willingly donated the new pulpit from 1691 to the Marienkirche. The Lübeck canon Heinrich von Focke was his son.

literature

  • Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (arr.): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906, p. 373 ( digitized version ).
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 817
  • Joachim Konietzny: The painting by Heinrich Theodor Fricke "Marienkirche zu Lübeck, pillar epitaph". A consideration. Pansdorf 2010 ISBN 9783000334146

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caspar Ruetz : Refuted prejudices of the effect of church music, and of the costs involved: together with a preface by the Musicalische Liebhaberey , Berger, 1753, p. 125
  2. ↑ Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Lübeck 1859, p. 31 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Fock, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Focke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1701
Place of death Lübeck