In a joint project of the Francke Foundations with the Georgia Salzburger Society, Savannah (Georgia), and Prof. Russel Kleckley, Minneapolis (Minnesota), the letters of Johann Ernst Bergmann (1755–1824), the last Lutheran pastor sent from Halle to Georgia, kept at the Archive of the Francke Foundations were prepared for an English-language edition. In 1786, ten years after the secession of the…
Johann Adam Steinmetz und Kloster Berge
Reference: Brigitte Klosterberg u. Julia Knödler: The library of Berge Monastery: sources, holdings, tradition in Halle.
Under Steinmetz, the pedagogical institute at Berge Monastary flourished once again and enjoyed an excellent reputation among aristocratic and bourgeois circles. The school's teaching methods were based on the educational…
On the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the Georgia Salzburger Society in 2025, another joint project between the Francke Foundations, Prof. em. Russell Kleckley, South Carolina, and the society of the descendants of Salzburger emigrants in Georgia was agreed upon in September 2023. Following the edition of the letters of Johann Martin Boltzius (1703-1765) and Johann Ernst Bergmann…
Based at the Francke Foundations was a 6-year research project, funded by the German Research Foundation, titled »Halle pastors, German settlers and Lutheran congregations in North America. Critical edition and scholarly exploration of letters and official journals 1740-1820.« A cooperative consisting of Prof. Dr. Mark Häberlein, Chair of Modern History at the University of Bamberg, Prof. Dr.…
Programme and Abstracts
The research carried out in recent years on the architecture of the Francke Foundations and their intended effects have made it clear that the »Orphanange« in Halle is a unique Baroque complex. Here a new formal language of public-representative building was developed in order to place fundamental social tasks - piety, upbringing, education, social welfare - in a…
Auch heute noch begeistert das Kunst- und Naturalienkabinett Besucher:innen jeden Alters. Als einziges vollständig erhaltenes barockes Kuriositätenkabinett Deutschlands verkörpert es das originale Museumskonzept des 18. Jahrhunderts. Die einzigartige Verbindung von Kunst und Natur im Kabinett wirft bis heute zentrale Fragen der Wissensgeschichte auf. Die interdisziplinäre Erforschung dieses…
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