Scholarship talks of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship programme

A central component of the Dr. Liselotte Kirchner Scholarship of the Francke Foundations is the presentation of results within the framework of colloquium events with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, to which all interested parties are cordially invited. 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.

Program 2025

Thursday, April 24, 1:30-3:00 p.m.

Gabriele Carlo Bellinzona (Hamburg): »Restauratio linguae lusitanicae«. The missionary Nicholas Dal (1690-1747) and the Portuguese language in the field of tension between the confessions. (held in German)

Thursday, June 19, 2:30-6:00 p.m.

Dr. des. Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Leipzig): Wonders of nature in everyday life in the Arctic? Seals and whales in the context of the Herrnhut Greenland Mission. (held in German)

Dr. Peter James Yoder (Montreat): Freylinghausen's Ordnung des Heyls and the life of Pietist catechization.