Germany - Funeral Sermons

A detailed article in English describing the German Funeral Sermon can be found in the German Genealogical Digest, Vol. 13. No. 1.

An online link to the funeral sermon of Heinrich Wynick. For more information search for Wynick at www.personalschriften.de

A link to Funeral sermons available at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbuettel

A link to online funeral sermons in the collection of the Family History Library for Freiburg, Sachsen and Koenigsberg, Ostpreussen and Minden, Wesfalen

Funeral sermons microfilmed at the Family History Library include these in Hildesheim.

Examples of Funeral Sermons can be found at this site: www.personalschriften.de. This site also contains a complete catalog to more than 200,000 funeral sermons available at various archives or libraries. Click on databank GESA to access catalog.

Early modern forms of places names and their variations as used in funeral sermons can be accessed at this link: THELO [Abbreviation for Thesaurus Locorum]. Click on "Registersuche". Enter the name of the place [such as Schleswig] in the "Suchbegriff".

Funeral Procession from the 17th century.

See also: Craig M. Koslofsy. Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Europe.

Cornelia Niekus Moore. Patterned Lives: the Lutheran Funeral. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/renaissance_quarterly/v060/60.3boettcher.pdf