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.

 

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

Wissensdurst: Limo + Lauschen + Loslegen

13. November 2025

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

Miniaturworkshops und interaktive Vorträge

Kultur-Aperitif

19. November 2025

Kurze, pointierte und unterhaltsame Führung zur Mittagszeit mit geselligem Ausklang

Der Besuch des preußischen Königs

20. November 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

Weltblicke

22. November 2025

Eine Museumswerkstatt für Geschichten, Objekte und Perspektiven

Familienstunde im Museum

07. December 2025

Ein Junge stützt sich auf eine Vitrine in der barocken Wunderkammer und ist begeistert von dem, was er sieht.
  

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.

 

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.

Exhibitions

300 Jahre Neugier. Verborgenes Wissen aus der Wunderkammer

Jahresausstellung 2025

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

Die Handbibliothek der Kunst- und Naturalienkammer

Kabinettausstellung

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10. September 2025 - 06. April 2026House 22-24

Global Perspectives

A Museum Lab for Stories, Objects, and Insights

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27. September 2025 - 01. February 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