The Francke Foundations in Halle offer a chance to explore a unique historical ensemble of social and educational architecture from the early modern period. Founded by pastor, theologian and educationalist August Hermann Francke (1663–1727), the extraordinary project of his remarkable school town began in 1698 when work started on his Orphanage, the heart of the entire ensemble – later called the
… Foundations.
Project management: Dr Britta Klosterberg Project supervision: Dr Jürgen Gröschl Project work: Antje Faßhauer Project duration: May 2007 to March 2009
Cataloguing of the Canstein Bible Collection
Named after its patron Carl Hildebrand von Canstein (1667–1719) and founded in 1710, the world's first Bible Society was one of the most profitable enterprises of the Halle Orphanage.…
… reflected on and used personal experience as a reliable point of reference. In addition, and sometimes in competition with this, experience has been placed in relation to the God revealed in the Bible; as an element of Christian wisdom, it has also taken on rational, enlightenment functions in educational theory and practice. It has set individualising and subjectivising accents in literary, musical,…
