Thomas Müller-Bahlke

Thomas Jakob Müller-Bahlke (born April 20, 1959 in Mexico City ) is a German historian and since 2003 director of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) and since 2015 honorary professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Müller-Bahlke studied history , communication studies and Ibero-Romance literature at the Georg August University in Göttingen . He received a research grant from the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany . In 1991 he was with the thesis The emergence of the Lutheran Church in North America doctorate and was a research associate at the Department of Medieval and Modern History at the University of Goettingen.

In 1992 Müller-Bahlke became a research associate at the Francke Foundations in Halle and head of the foundations archive. His grandfather was the last orphanage pastor in Halle, his father grew up in the foundations. In 2003 he became director of the Francke Foundations as successor to Helmut Obst . Müller-Bahlke is a member of the Historical Commission for Saxony-Anhalt and a member of the board of directors of the Interdisciplinary Center for Pietism Research in Halle. From 2001 to 2011 he was the chairman of the association and from 2011 to 2014 a member of the board of the association for the history of Halle . Since the beginning of 2015 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Halle, on January 28, 2015, the certificate of appointment was handed over by the rector of the University Udo Sträter . In the same year he received the Halle citizen award The donkey that goes on roses . Thomas Müller-Bahlke is the author and editor of numerous specialist publications. From 2015 to 2019 he was chairman of the historical commission for Saxony-Anhalt .

Publications (selection)

author

• Tour of the Francke Foundations in Halle. (with Edmund Baron), Franckesche Stiftungen Verlag, Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-939922-44-5 .
• The cabinet of curiosities of the Francke Foundations. Franckesche Stiftungen Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-939922-36-0 .
• The historic orphanage. The main building of the Francke Foundations in Halle. (with Paul Raabe ), Franckesche Stiftungen Verlag, Halle 2005, ISBN 978-3-447-06322-7 .

editor

• The Hallesche orphanage. The Francke Foundations with their sights. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10257-5 .
• Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg. Autobiography from 1711 to 1743. Franckesche Stiftungen Verlag, Halle 2011, ISBN 978-3-939922-32-2 .
• The reputation of the city. Hall in historical views. Franckesche Stiftungen Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-06335-7 .
• Education and Urban Society. Contributions to the history of education in Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2004, ISBN 3-89812-219-0 .
• In honor of God and for the country's best. The Francke Foundations and Prussia, aspects of an old alliance. Publishing house Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle 2001, ISBN 978-3-447-06327-2 .
• Salzburg Halle North America. A bilingual finder and reader on the Georgia archive of the Francke Foundations. Publishing house Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle 1999, ISBN 978-3-447-06367-8 .

literature

• Investment and Marketing Society Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Lutherland Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2015, ISBN 978-3-95462-475-1 . (Short biography, pp. 380–381)
• Thomas Müller-Bahlke: Likeable people in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (December 30, 2011)
• Thomas Müller-Bahlke: In portrait - Francke's biggest fan in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (October 20, 2015)

Web links

• Thomas Müller-Bahlke in the German biography
• Literature by and about Thomas Müller-Bahlke in the catalog of the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt
• Works by and about Thomas Müller-Bahlke  in the German Digital Library
• Müller-Bahlke, Thomas .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .