In another collaborative project between the Francke Foundations, the Georgia Salzburger Society, and Prof. em. Russell C. Kleckley, a total of 100 letters and a travel journal by pastors Hermann Heinrich Lemke (1720-1768), Christian Rabenhorst (1728-1776), and Christoph Friedrich Triebner (1740-1815), who worked between J. M. Boltzius and J. E. Bergmann in the Ebenezer emigrant community in…
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Thanks to a generous donation from Dr Liselotte Kirchner (Offenbach), the Francke Foundations are able to run their own scholarship programme. Since 2016, this has enabled 92 projects from 17 different countries to be funded. In addition, a three-month fellowship is awarded, in cooperation with the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt and the Herzog August Library in…
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In terms of academic research into the Francke Foundations, the focus is clearly on the 18th century. There are understandable reasons for this, given the Foundations' global reach during this period. However, the Research Centre has also set itself the task of strengthening research into the history of the Foundations in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the one hand, the character of the…
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Our support association effectively supports the work of the children's home, for example by purchasing specialist books for the in-house library or Montessori materials for the groups. It also provides us with financial support for special events (e.g. flea market, Advent celebrations). We are very grateful for this!
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Orphanage Register
In this project, sponsored by the Friends of the Francke Foundations, orphanages established in Germany from the end of the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Old Empire were recorded in a database. To this end, relevant primary and secondary literature as well as archival sources were evaluated. The database includes information on the founders and privileges, affiliated…
In a joint project of the Francke Foundations with the Georgia Salzburger Society, Savannah (Georgia), and Prof. Russel Kleckley, Minneapolis (Minnesota), the letters of Johann Ernst Bergmann (1755–1824), the last Lutheran pastor sent from Halle to Georgia, kept at the Archive of the Francke Foundations were prepared for an English-language edition. In 1786, ten years after the secession of the…
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