… an impact in Scandinavia. In the Danish-Norwegian and Swedish kingdoms, Pietism spread both within and outside the church and gained many supporters.This brochure is published on the occasion of the cabinet exhibition of the same name in the Historical Library of the Francke Foundations (November 2014 to April 2015) on the spread and manifestations of Pietism in the Nordic countries from the beginning to…
… to postcolonial perspectives, lost and mysterious objects. Particular attention should be paid to the fact that Carl von Linné's classification system was first presented in a museum setting in this cabinet of curiosities in Halle.
This book is published in German.
… location, between 1736 and 1741 Gottfried August Gründler (1710–1775) gave it its current form in the former dormitory of the Francke Foundations' orphan boys. The original, richly decorated collection cabinets contain valuable objects such as a whole Seychelles nut, the earliest Mongolian manuscript found in Germany, Hungarian cheese, a tattooed fish and all kinds of other curiosities. Intended from the…
… 1st International Congress for Pietism Research, the library of the Francke Foundations presented exhibits from its own holdings and those of the publishing house of the Halle Orphanage Bookshop in a cabinet exhibition, offering exemplary insights into the field of European Protestant devotional literature from the 17th to the 19th century. The articles compiled in the accompanying brochure provide access…
