Calendar of the Francke Foundations
Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme
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.
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, 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.
Thursday, October 2, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.
Dr. Thomas Kennedy (Tiruchirappalli): Liturgical practices of the German Lutheran Pietist missionaries from Halle among the Tamil people and their impact on Human Flourishing.
Prof. Dr. Zoltán Csepregi (Budapest): Hungari et Transylvani in the schools of the Francke Foundations in Halle (1696–1787): Pedagogical knowledge transfer to Hungary and Transylvania in the 18th century.
Highlights
Familienstunde im Museum
04. January 2026
Healing body and soul. Medicine and Hygiene in the 18th Century
02. May - 17. October 2021
In 1721, the foundation stone for the children's hospital in Germany was laid at the Francke Foundations. The 300th anniversary of this event is the occasion for the annual...
Kultur-Aperitif
21. January 2026
Kurze, pointierte und unterhaltsame Führung zur Mittagszeit mit geselligem Ausklang
Der Besuch des preußischen Königs
22. January 2026
Theatraler Rundgang durch das Historische Waisenhaus
Events
Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme
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.
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, 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.
Thursday, October 2, 2.30 – 6.00 p.m.
Dr. Thomas Kennedy (Tiruchirappalli): Liturgical practices of the German Lutheran Pietist missionaries from Halle among the Tamil people and their impact on Human Flourishing.
Prof. Dr. Zoltán Csepregi (Budapest): Hungari et Transylvani in the schools of the Francke Foundations in Halle (1696–1787): Pedagogical knowledge transfer to Hungary and Transylvania in the 18th century.
