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…
The Count on His Travels. Edition of the travel diary of Count Heinrich XI Reuss of Obergreiz (1740-1742)
The first is the project, which has been taking place since 2020 in cooperation with the Staatlichen Bücher- und Kupferstichsammlung in the Summer Palace in Greiz and the ThULB. It is based at the FSU Jena and is funded by the Thuringian State Chancellery to create a…
The Ziegenbalg House
The Ziegenbalg House in Tharangambadi (Tamil Nadu) is a joint project of the Francke Foundations in Halle, the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony and the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC).
From 1706 Halle theologians worked in the Danish commercial branch Tranquebar, which is today's Tharangambadi in the Indian state Tamil Nadu. In the course of…
Project
The project focuses on determining the relationship between Pietist religiosity and alchemical practices as well as theoretical adoptions from speculative alchemy at the Halle Orphanage in the 18th century. A core thesis is that the pharmacy and medicine practiced there were more closely linked to medical alchemy in the early modern period than previously assumed.
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