… been held annually in March on the occasion of the birthday of August Hermann Francke (1663–1727). This volume documents the sermons delivered by Helmut Obst during the Francke Celebrations in Halle's Market Church from 2003 to 2013, as well as other sermons and addresses during this period.
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Francke-Predigten 2003 bis 2013Vom Ernst der Nachfolge (Lk 9,57–62) – 23. März 2003Leiden…
… North America. In the first decades of the 18th century, Halle-style Pietism also had 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…
… theologian Mühlenberg to the colony of Pennsylvania for the spiritual care of the German immigrants. In the mobile exhibition (German and English) we show how Mühlenberg built up a functioning Lutheran church system from New York to Georgia and how he gained great prestige in colonial North America and in the highest political circles. His sons John Peter Gabriel Mühlenberg and Frederick Augustus Mühlenberg…
The Prussian army chaplaincy was transformed from a disorganized, unofficial apparatus into a bureaucratized, centralized, and hierarchical state organ as part of the collaboration between August Hermann Francke (1663–1727) and King Friedrich Wilhelm I (1688–1740), but it was the Pietists who were the driving force behind these institutionalizations, not the monarchy. Francke and his allies
… 19 und 41 der Reihe, die bereits die Lehrer und ihre Ausbildung in Halle sowie den Unterrichtsstoff beleuchteten.
Research on Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700–1760), founder of the Moravian Church, has so far focused primarily on the adult years of his life. In this study, for the first time, the focus shifts to the Count's school days in Halle at the Pädagogium der Glauchaschen Anstalten. A…
… farmers’ rights, designed a civil court of justice, and introduced smallpox vaccination. His influence also extended to finding a cure for rabies and snakebites. His Tamil and English-medium schools and churches continue to flourish, keeping his legacy alive.This biography focuses on Schwartz’s service to Indians, not British or German interests. Based on extensive archival sources in Tamil, German and…
