"Francke Foundations"

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Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950 (Publications of the German Historical Institute)
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Excerpt - on Page 14: " ... 14 Norbert Finzsch Renate Wilson's essay (Chapter 8) focuses on the pietistic Francke Foundations (Franckesche Stiftungen) in eighteenth-century Halle. Although these foundations were the result of religious and theological nonconformity, they were, at the ... "

Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500
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Excerpt - on Page 71: " ... Lütkens (1650-1712), found the first two mis- sionaries, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau. Both were for- mer students of the Francke Foundations in Halle. ... "

Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America (Early America: History, Context, Culture)
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Excerpt - on Page 3: " ... came from central and northern German states; a disproportionate number had been educated at, and worked as missionaries from, the Francke Foundations, established by the Lutheran pietist August Hermann Francke at Halle, in Prussia. ... "

The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World)
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Excerpt - on Page 209: " ... of the Francke Foundations, located in Halle, Prussia, whose diverse interests ranged from charity and schooling, to printing and brewing, ... "

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