Rev. August Hermann Francke

Protestant religious leader, educator, and social reformer who was one of the principal promoters of German Pietism, a movement of spiritual renewal that reacted to the doctrinal preoccupation of contemporary Lutheranism.

Influenced by the enthusiasm triggered by Philipp Jakob Spener’s initial Pietist impulses, Francke founded Pietist groups at the University of Halle, where he taught theology and Oriental languages (1695–1727). His conventicle was criticized by traditional Lutherans for its biblical revivalism and social activism, particularly the founding (1695) at Halle of the Franckesche Stiftungen (Francke Foundations)

A book was Published entitled "The Footsteps of Divine Providence" by August Hermann Francke, Counsler at Law. He was educatd chiefly in private at Gotha, and afterwards at the Universities of Erfurt, Kiel and Keipsic where he came under the influence of the pietist Christian Kortholts.

During his student career busied himself specially with the Herbew and Greek languages and in order to acquire the former more thoroughly, he for sometime put himself under the instruction of Rabbi Ezra Edzardi at Hamburg, at whose instance he is said to have read through the entire Hebrew Bible seven times within a year.

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