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 2: Lebensläufe und Diarien der Pastoren Johann Dietrich Matthias Heinzelmann (1724–1756), Justus Heinrich Christian Helmuth (1745–1825), Johann Andreas Krug (1732–1796), Johann Christoph Kunze (1744–1807), Johann Nicolaus Kurtz (1720–1794), Johann Helfrich Schaum (1721–1778), Friedrich Schulze (1726–1809), Christoph Immanuel Schulze (1740–1809), Johann Ludwig Voigt (1731–1800). Ed. by Wolfgang Splitter, Markus Berger and Jan-Hendrik Evers in collaboration with Lara Grünberg, Katharina Prager and Nikolas K. Schröder

At the center of this eight-volume edition are 13 Lutheran clergymen who were sent to Pennsylvania between 1744 and 1786 by the Glaucha Institutions (today's Francke Foundations in Halle) to provide pastoral care to German Lutherans. There, and soon also in neighboring regions of British North America, they served as parish pastors from 1745 to 1825. They were preceded by Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg (1711–1787), whom the director of this institution, Gotthilf August Francke (1696–1769), had offered an overseas assignment in early September 1741. With Mühlenberg's arrival in Philadelphia at the end of November 1742, the institutions, a royal Prussian privileged association of educational, charitable, missionary, and commercial enterprises, assumed a mission that would not end until shortly after the First World War.
The second volume of this edition contains the biographies, travel diaries, and official diaries of ten Lutheran pastors sent from Halle to Pennsylvania between 1744 and 1786. The sources date from 1746 to 1791 and document the ministry of these pastors as well as their attempt to transfer Halle-style Pietism to Pennsylvania. They also document the successful efforts to establish a Lutheran church in North America's immigrant community under difficult conditions.