Introduction

Biography

Heermann re­ceived theo­lo­gic­al train­ing as a result of a vow his mo­ther made when he was ve­ry ill as a child. Af­ter or­di­na­tion, he taught at the uni­ver­si­ty, but had to stop in 1607 af­ter con­tract­ing an eye in­fec­tion.

Four years lat­er, he be­came a dea­con, then the Lu­ther­an pas­tor, in Koe­ben. His min­is­try was in­ter­rupt­ed se­ver­al times by the Thir­ty Years’ War, but the faith­ful min­is­ter re­sumed when­ev­er the fight­ing died down.

In 1634, me­di­cal prob­lems forced him to stop preach­ing, and he fi­nal­ly re­tired in 1638.

Works

• Devoti Mu­si­ca Cor­dis, Hauss-und Herz-Mu­si­ca (Bres­lau, Si­le­sia [now Wro­cław, Po­land]: 1630)