Calendar of the Francke Foundations

Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme

Young researchers follow a colleague's lecture online on a large video screen.

A central component of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship of the Francke Foundations is the presentation of results within the framework of colloquium events with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. The colloquia will take place in the Neubauer Hall, House 52 of the Francke Foundations. They are hybrid events – the respective access link will be published here in a timely manner.

The access link to the event on June 19, 2025 with Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): https://francke-halle.webex.com/francke-halle/j.php?MTID=mff5194ca9c71c371dff6d2ebe556f39f

 

Program 2025

Thursday, April 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Gabriele Carlo Bellinzona (Hamburg): »Restauratio linguae lusitanicae«. The missionary Nicholas Dal (1690-1747) and the Portuguese language in the field of tension between the confessions. (held in German)

 

Thursday, June 19, 2:30-6:00 p.m.

Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Wonders of nature in everyday life in the Arctic? Seals and whales in the context of the Herrnhut Greenland Mission. (held in German)

Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): Freylinghausen's Ordnung des Heyls and the life of Pietist catechization.

 

Thursday, July 17, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.

Dr. Michael Rocher (Siegen): Punishments and their negotiation in the network of the Halle orphanage in the 18th century.

 

Thursday, August 28, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Calcutta): Vaishnava Bhakti, Indigenous Piety and Missionary Protestantism: Interfaith Dialogues in Colonial India (1706–1843).

 

Thursday, September 25, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.

Daniel Haas (Hamburg): Halle's network in the Ottoman Empire: practices of exchange and networking using the example of Stephan Schultz's journey to the Middle East (1752–1756).

Dr. Nedim Zahirović (Wien): The Miscellanea of Zaimi Mehmed from Gyula in the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle.

Highlights

Sommerserenade auf dem Altan

25. June 2025

Ein Abend zwischen Kulturgeschichte, Musik und Sommerstimmung

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften

04. July 2025

Blick auf die Wiese vor dem Waisenhaus am Abend, Besucher:innen sitzen und unterhalten sich gemütlich

Marketing im 18. Jahrhundert

Kultur-Aperitif

16. July 2025

Kurze, pointierte und unterhaltsame Führung zur Mittagszeit mit geselligem Ausklang

Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme

17. July 2025

Young researchers follow a colleague's lecture online on a large video screen.

Tag des offenen Denkmals

14. September 2025

Wie die Kulissen in einem barocken Theater ragen die Bücherregale der Historischen Bibliothek in den Saal.

Erhalten und Erneuern: Denkmalpflege trifft neue Nutzung

Der Besuch des preußischen Königs

14. September 2025

Two actors perform the dialogue between Francke and King Frederick William I on the stairs of the Historic Orphanage during his visit in 1713.

Theatraler Rundgang durch das Historische Waisenhaus

Vernetzen. Verändern. Gestalten. Kulturelle Bildung trifft Soziale Arbeit.

18. September 2025

Praxis-Fachtagung in den Franckeschen Stiftungen

Wissensdurst: Limo + Lauschen + Loslegen

09. October 2025

Ein volles, ein halbvolles und ein fast leeres Glas aus Legosteinen
© Barbara Werner / Vermittlung Franckesche Stiftungen

Miniaturworkshops und interaktive Vorträge

  

Events

Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme

Young researchers follow a colleague's lecture online on a large video screen.

A central component of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship of the Francke Foundations is the presentation of results within the framework of colloquium events with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. The colloquia will take place in the Neubauer Hall, House 52 of the Francke Foundations. They are hybrid events – the respective access link will be published here in a timely manner.

The access link to the event on June 19, 2025 with Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig) and Prof. Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): https://francke-halle.webex.com/francke-halle/j.php?MTID=mff5194ca9c71c371dff6d2ebe556f39f

 

Program 2025

Thursday, April 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Gabriele Carlo Bellinzona (Hamburg): »Restauratio linguae lusitanicae«. The missionary Nicholas Dal (1690-1747) and the Portuguese language in the field of tension between the confessions. (held in German)

 

Thursday, June 19, 2:30-6:00 p.m.

Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Wonders of nature in everyday life in the Arctic? Seals and whales in the context of the Herrnhut Greenland Mission. (held in German)

Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): Freylinghausen's Ordnung des Heyls and the life of Pietist catechization.

 

Thursday, July 17, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.

Dr. Michael Rocher (Siegen): Punishments and their negotiation in the network of the Halle orphanage in the 18th century.

 

Thursday, August 28, 2.30 – 4.00 p.m.

Prof. Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (Calcutta): Vaishnava Bhakti, Indigenous Piety and Missionary Protestantism: Interfaith Dialogues in Colonial India (1706–1843).

 

Thursday, September 25, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.

Daniel Haas (Hamburg): Halle's network in the Ottoman Empire: practices of exchange and networking using the example of Stephan Schultz's journey to the Middle East (1752–1756).

Dr. Nedim Zahirović (Wien): The Miscellanea of Zaimi Mehmed from Gyula in the archive of the Francke Foundations in Halle.

Exhibitions

300 Jahre Neugier. Verborgenes Wissen aus der Wunderkammer

Jahresausstellung 2025

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11. May 2025 - 06. April 2026Haus 1 - Historisches Waisenhaus

Francke in Transition

Join us in designing the new exhibition on the founder of the foundation!

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11. September 2022Haus 28

Historisches Waisenhaus

Ein Schloss für die Bildung

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Haus 1 - Historisches Waisenhaus

Kunst- und Naturalienkammer

3000 Wunder der Welt

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Haus 1 - Historisches Waisenhaus

Kulissenbibliothek

»Eine der besten Bibliotheken der Zeit«

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Haus 22

Pietismus-Kabinett

Kraft des Wortes

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Haus 1 - Historisches Waisenhaus

Rundgang durch das Kulturdenkmal

300 Jahre Bildung in einer einzigartigen Architekturlandschaft

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Waisenhaus-Kabinett

Weltveränderung durch Menschenveränderung

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Haus 1 - Historisches Waisenhaus