Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship

Thanks to a generous foundation by Dr. Liselotte Kirchner (Offenbach), the Francke Foundations are able to award research grants. The aim of the scholarship programme is to further develop research on the history of the Francke Foundations on the basis of their rich source collections. The scholarship programme serves to promote the academic use of the source material available in the library and archive of the Study Centre. Three-month scholarships are awarded for scholars and three-month scholarships for young scholars from Germany and abroad (post-docs). Recipients of a scholarship are required to reside in Halle, give a scholarly presentation and submit a short report on their research carried out within the context of the scholarship programme. The scholarships are combined with a residence obligation in Halle and an academic lecture as well as a short final report.
Applications for 2024 are open from 15 June to 15 October 2023. For information on scholarships and required application materials, please see this flyer.
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.
Thursday, 20 April, 2:30 – 4:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Juliane Engelhardt (Kopenhagen): Radical Pietism in Germany, Denmark and Norway, 1690–1750
Thursday, 15 June, 2:30 – 6:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Will Sweetman (Otāgo): Christoph Walther’s (1699–1741) Veda
Steven Reinhardt (Halle): Der Ausnahmekatechet Schawrirajen (1755-1819): Ein indischer Nationalarbeiter zwischen Selbstbewusstsein und (Selbst-)Repräsentation
Thursday, 19 October, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
PD Dr. Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz (Bamberg): Ein geistliches Leben zwischen Halle, Wien und fränkischer Provinz: Johann Christian Lerche (1691–1768) und seine Verbindungen zu den Glauchaschen Anstalten
Thursday, 2 November, 2:30 - 6:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Daniel L. Brunner (Portland): The London Correspondence of Anton Wilhelm Böhme (1673–1722)
Prof. Dr. Adelisa Malena (Venedig): Confessional impartiality in Europe at the turn of the 18th century: cultural transfers, shared projects and transconfessional networks