Canstein Bible Institute

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Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein

The Canstein Bible Institute is the world's oldest Bible Society .

The Bible Institute was founded in Halle (Saale) in 1710 by Carl Hildebrand Freiherr von Canstein in collaboration with August Hermann Francke . The aim was to counter the shortage of the Bible in Germany, especially in the poorer population, and to print Bibles quickly, in large numbers and at a low price. For this purpose, a " standing sentence " was created, a novelty in the history of the printing company: all approx. 1300 printed pages of the Bible were set at once with approx. 5 million lead letters and this complete sentence was left permanently for further editions . Previously, only a few pages were set in book printing, the sheets were printed for the entire edition, the set was broken up and then the next pages were set with the same letters.

Berlin and Dortmund

In 1938 the Prussian Main Bible Society took over the rights and assets of the von Canstein Biblical Society in Halle. Due to the division of Germany after the Second World War , there were two successors to the old biblical institute after 1945: the Evangelical Main Biblical Society and von Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt Berlin (EHBG) and from 1951 the von Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt in Westphalia , based in Dortmund. The EHBG was dissolved in 2004. The von Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt in Berlin e. V. founded in 2005.

The Westphalian Society continued to exist, but gave up printing the Bible in the mid-1970s and merged with the Württemberg Bible Society to form the German Bible Society in Stuttgart .

Canstein Bible Center

In 1995 the Canstein Bible Center was established in its tradition . The center is located on the premises of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) .

Today, the Bible Center is no longer dedicated to Bible printing, but to the pedagogical introduction to the Bible, for example during training courses, lectures or seminars for school classes and private individuals. A model of the Temple of Solomon is exhibited in the rooms of the center .

The Biblical Center is supported by the Central German Bible Works of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM) .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also Christoph Links : The fate of the GDR publishers: Privatization and its consequences. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-595-9 , pp. 278 f.
  2. ↑ official website , accessed June 28, 2014
  3. ^ From Cansteinsche Bibelanstalt , accessed on June 28, 2014.

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 40.7 "  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 21.7"  E