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- Thomas Jacobsen Tarnovius was born circa 1644 (his parents were married in 1643 and he became a student in 1660), also called "Thomas Tarnov". He is the son of the clergyman for ?ster? parish (a.k.a Eysturoy) on the F?roe Islands, namely Jacob Christensen Klinte and his wife Karen Christensdatter (Tarnovius). Thomas Jacobsen Tarnovius became student in Thorshavn in 1660, and stayed in F?roe Islands, possibly in Thorshavn or as a "Kapellan" (curate) for his father in ?ster? parish. After that he was ordained on March 19, 1669 and made the clergyman for Pedersker parish on May 5, 1669. The same year Thomas Jacobsen moved to Bornholm he had his greatwork on the F?roe Islands published - it is called: "Fer?ers Beskriffuelse", written while he was in the F?roe Islands, possibly he may have been funded to do so, and that is why he stayed there after he finished his studies.
If Karen Christensdatter (Tarnovius) was the mother of Thomas (which most of the sources really do seem to indicate) it would simply be too much coincidence if both his wife and mother were from Germany and named Karen, and since the series pastorum from 1759 was written by the man who was curate to Jacob Klint's daughter's husband, then it is likely that he would know that Jacob's wife Karen was from Germany, and Wiberg suggests they were married in Rostock where the Tarnovius family resided. The Rostock family used the name Tarnow in German and Tarnovius in Latin. So both spellings were common. Paul Tarnovius professor in Rostock lived 1562-1633. I'll see what else I can find on them. There is no reason to look for Thomas Tarnovius' wife in the F?roe Islands. Thomas may well have married someone in Bornholm. There is no record of him being in the F?roe Islands after he graduated in 1660 - other than his book published in 1669 (which obviously was written before 1669 anyway, a book at that time usually took about two-three years from it was finished till it was printed); all of Rasmus Ravn's books have forewards dating a minimum of two years prior to publication date. But it is generally believed he was in the F?roe Islands when he wrote his book, and this does seem the most logical, although there are examples of people writing books about a place years after they moved from there: i.e. Laurids de Thurah, who wrote his book about Bornholm while living in Lolland-Falster. So it is hard to say when he arrived on Bornholm, if he was a curate first somewhere or in the Latin school, etc. It would be quite possible that he didn't get married until he was ordained a clergyman on Bornholm; and that his wife's family was on Bornholm as well. Furthermore, there is no one among the priests, alderman, mayors, town's men, clerks, etc. at that time named Nicolaj or Nicolajsen on the F?roe Islands (quite strange really) and he hardly married a peasant woman, so this could be an indication that she was not from the F?roe Islands. However, he became a student in 1660 and if he was in university until around 1663 or 64 and then on Bornholm around 1669 or a little prior, then there are still 5 years where he could have been married somewhere else than on Bornholm, although many clergymen did stay single until they got a parish (as they were often married to the widow of the previous clergyman, and curates, etc. couldn't always afford to get married). So all in all there is a good change that he was in fact married on Bornholm to a woman from Bornholm. It is likely that she is the sister of Jens Kofoed's wife Barbara Nicolaisdatter - possibly her name was Anne Nicolaisdatter?
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1644 - 1684 (~ 40 år)
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