Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825

Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825. Eine kritische Quellenedition zu ihrer Amtstätigkeit in Nordamerika. Ed. by Mark Häberlein, Thomas Müller-Bahlke and Hermann Wellenreuther (†). 
Part 7: Briefe und andere Amtsdokumente der Vorgesetzten und enger Mitarbeiter. Samuel Theodor Albinus (1718–1776), Johann Friedrich Borgold (1757–1829), Sebastian Andreas Fabricius (1716–1790), Gotthilf August Francke (1696–1769), Gottlieb Anastasius Freyling-hausen (1719–1785), Georg Christian Knapp (1753–1825), Johann Georg Knapp (1705–1771), Johann Friedrich Nebe (1736–1812), August Hermann Niemeyer (1754–1828), Friedrich Wilhelm Pasche (1718–1792), Johann Ludwig Schulze (1734–1799), Gottlieb Friedrich Stoppelberg (1740–1797) und Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen (1694–1776). Ed. by Wolfgang Splitter, Markus Berger and Jan-Hendrik Evers in collaboration with Lara Grünberg, Nikolas K. Schröder and Veronika Niklaus (Register)

The seventh volume of this eight-volume source edition contains 194 letters written by directors and staff of the Glaucha Institutes in Halle, as well as members of the London Court Chapel, to Lutheran clergy and congregations in North America in the 18th and early 19th centuries. These letters provided the recipients with news from Europe and also discussed problems of congregational organization, financing, and conflict resolution. They thus represent an important complement to the diaries and letters of Halle pastors active in North America published in the previous volumes. The long-time director of the Glaucha Institutes, Gotthilf August Francke, is particularly prominently represented with 85 documents. His central role as a contact for the clergy sent from Halle and his contribution to the development of the Lutheran church system in Pennsylvania are revealed here on the basis of a broad source material. Furthermore, the edition provides a detailed account of how relations between Halle and Pennsylvania developed in the decades following Francke's death in 1769.