Halle pastors, German settlers and Lutheran congregations in North America: Critical edition and historical exploration of letters and official diaries, 1740-1820

在美国建国前后的几十年里，对北美路德教会历史的研究迄今为止主要集中在Heinrich Melchior m<e:1> hlenberg（1711-1787）的日记和信件上，而目前的项目旨在转录和编辑Heinrich Melchior m<e:1> hlenberg的牧区同事（即那些从德国哈雷派来的路德教会牧师）的所有现有信件和日记。在1745年到1786年之间搬到宾夕法尼亚州)。这种对文献基础的大量扩充，将带来对路德教会在北美的传播和发展的全新见解，对这些教会对德语移民的作用和意义的见解，对路德教会在多教派的大西洋中部地区（宾夕法尼亚和邻近的殖民地或州）的地位的见解，对大西洋世界虔诚主义历史的见解，以及德国新教在旧世界和新世界的相互认知。这个项目有几个主要目标。第一个是迄今为止未发表的和很少研究的信件和路德会牧师在哈雷弗兰克基金会和在费城（美国）路德神学院的档案杂志的关键版。其次，在这些新编辑的资料的基础上，将研究August Hermann Francke（1663-1727）创立的Glauchasche Anstalten派往北美和美国殖民地的牧师与讲德语的定居者之间的关系，以及路德教会在大西洋中部地区的发展。续期申请的目的是确保该版本的预期八卷（两卷期刊，五卷信件，一卷索引）可以准备好印刷和出版。在项目一期完成两卷期刊和一卷书信后，将利用延期完成剩余的四卷书信和索引卷。

Whereas research on the history of the Lutheran Church in North America during the decades before and after the founding of the United States of America has so far concentrated on the journals and correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg (1711-1787), the present project aims to transcribe and edit all existing letters and journals of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg's pastoral colleagues (i.e., of those Lutheran pastors who were sent from Halle, Germany, to Pennsylvania between 1745 and 1786). This substantial expansion of the documentary basis will lead to fundamentally new insights into the spread and development of Lutheran congregations in North America, into the role and significance of these congregations for German-speaking immigrants, into the place of the Lutheran Church with the multi-confessional mid-Atlantic region (Pennsylvania and neighboring colonies or states), into the history of Pietism in the Atlantic world, and into the mutual perceptions of German Protestantism in the Old World and the New. This project has to main goals. The first is a critical edition of hitherto unpublished and little-studied correspondences and journals of Lutheran pastors in the archives of the Francke Foundations in Halle and in the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (USA). Secondly, the relations between the pastors whom the Glauchasche Anstalten, founded by August Hermann Francke (1663-1727), sent to colonies in North America and the United States and German-speaking settlers, as well as the development of Lutheran congregations in the mid-Atlantic region will be researched on the basis of these newly edited sources. The renewal of application aims make sure that the prospective eight volumes of the edition (two volumes of journals, five volumes of letters, one index volume) can be made ready for printing and be published. After completion of the two volumes of journals and one volume of letters in the first period of the project, the extension is to be used for getting the remaining four volumes of letters and the index volume finished.