ABSTRACT
Located on the Saale river in Sachsen-Anhalt, GERMANY, Halle achieved prominence in European Protestantism through the establishment of a progressive university and August Hermann Francke’s Pietist orphanage in the 1690s, making Halle a center of both the ENLIGHTENMENT and PIETISM in early eighteenthcentury Prussia. After 1740, Pietist influences waned, and the university became the leading voice of theological rationalism under SIEGMUND JAKOB BAUMGARTEN and JOHANN SALOMO SEMLER.
