The Franckesche Stiftungen, Halle's Francke Foundations, the institutional heir of the Pietist foundation that trained and sent Bartholomaus Ziegenbalg, documents its Ziegenbalg House exhibit and the arrival of Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plutschau as the first Lutheran missionaries to reach Tharangambadi, Tranquebar, India, and the intercultural exchange their mission began.
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The Francke Foundations' own institutional page, tier 2, the direct heir of the Halle foundation that sent Ziegenbalg, used here for the mission's founding context and its long afterlife, corroborated by Wikipedia's more precisely dated account below. NotesUsed for the Danish-Halle Mission's founding context and the Ziegenbalg House's own commemoration of the arrival.
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PublisherFranckesche Stiftungen zu Halle
URLhttps://www.francke-halle.de/en/about-us/international-relations/ziegenbalg-house
Source TypeInstitutional
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