… mission. The Halle missionaries translated the Bible into Tamil, established schools, and collected objects, letters, and palm-leaf manuscripts. These holdings still shape the Art and Natural History Cabinet today. This legacy led to the founding of the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1919 and the Museum for Intercultural Dialogue in 2017.
Ziegenbalg and Plütschau – First Lutheran…
… In Francke’s school concepts, the individual became the focus of pedagogy for the first time. The boarding school pupils were trained according to their personal talents. Select collections such as a Cabinet of Artefacts and Natural Curiosities, a library, an anatomy parlour and large teaching gardens complemented the traditional lesson offerings. The in-house publisher and printing office produced…
… Bible translations, sermons as well as other texts the Halle missionaries wrote in the Indian languages Tamil and Telugu that were sent to Europe. Here they were initially kept at the Orphanage’s Cabinet of Art and Natural History before being archived as a separate manuscript collection. Chronologically this collection is limited to the first half of the eighteenth century.
Finding aids Catalogue…
… from Wittenberg were catalogued in the supra-regional catalogue of the Common Library Network (GBV), making them searchable worldwide. A representative selection of the prints was presented in a cabinet exhibition at the library of the Francke Foundations. The project was funded by the Culture Department of the State Administration Office of Saxony-Anhalt.
Project manager: Dr Britta…
… members are anchored in independent, non-profit sponsorship and have relied on a significant share of private funding since their foundation.
Alliance of Early Universal Museums
Early modern cabinets of curiosities in Europe were interconnected in many ways. The aim of the network AEUM, founded in Halle in 2020, is to discuss and publish current issues of museum handling of surviving cabinets of…
… to marvel at the extraordinary beauty of stones and witness the exciting beginnings of a new science. In this context, the relationship between natural science and theology is also examined. Curiosity cabinets contain supposed witnesses of a pre-flood era, while explorers make groundbreaking geological discoveries in eerily beautiful mountain worlds. The richly illustrated catalogue shows impressive…
