{"id":26,"date":"2026-09-13T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/johann-fischer\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:53:40","slug":"programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/johann-fischer\/programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:24px;padding-bottom:40px\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:20px;line-height:1.65\">The detailed conference programme, including session times, will be published here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:18px;line-height:1.65\">The conference will open with a welcome address by <strong>Dr Marianne Schr\u00f6ter<\/strong>, Director of the Francke Foundations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group jf-programme is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-bottom:52px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#2C5697;font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:25px;font-weight:400\">Presentations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Renate Berga<\/strong><br><em>Sola fides: Johann Fischer\u2019s Latin Dissertations and His Early Prints and Manuscripts in the Collection of Bibliotheca Rigensis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>J\u00fcrgen Beyer<\/strong><br><em>Generalsuperintendent Johann Fischer als Investor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1692 beteiligte sich Fischer an einer Gesellschaft, die in Oberpahlen ein Erzbergwerk errichtete. Acht Jahre sp\u00e4ter investierte er in Halle in eine Manufaktur, die Spiegelglas, Kristalle und Porzellan herstellen sollte. Der Vortrag behandelt Fischer als kapitalistischen Investor \u2013 oder Spekulanten.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Meelis Friedenthal<\/strong><br><em>Johann Fischer and the University of Tartu<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Tiina-Erika Friedenthal<\/strong><br><em>Leichenpredigten und Epicedien f\u00fcr und von Johann Fischer aus den Jahren 1695\u20131697: Theologie des Trostes und soziales Beziehungsnetz<\/em><br><em>Pietist Bible Prefaces in Livonia and Estonia<\/em> (poster presentation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Marcus Heydecke<\/strong><br><em>Zwischen Magdeburg und Halle: Johann Fischers letzte Lebensjahre im Spiegel seiner Korrespondenz (1699\u20131705)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Der Beitrag widmet sich Fischers letzten Lebensjahren nach seiner Bewerbung um das Amt des Superintendenten in L\u00fcbeck 1699 \u2013 der Zeit in Halle und Magdeburg, zuletzt als Generalsuperintendent im Herzogtum Magdeburg. Ausgewertet werden Briefe Fischers und an ihn gerichtete Briefe, namentlich aus dem Briefwechsel Philipp Jakob Speners, aus dem Archiv der Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle und der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenb\u00fcttel, erg\u00e4nzt durch Akten aus dem Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Guntis Kalme<\/strong><br><em>Historia Salutis in Livonia: Johann Fischer\u2019s Theology of History in the Preface to the 1694 Latvian Bible<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report examines Johann Fischer\u2019s (1636\u20131705) preface to the 1694 Latvian Bible as an independent text of Lutheran Orthodox theology of history. Previous scholarship has primarily interpreted the preface within the contexts of church policy, educational reform, and the history of the Latvian written language. In contrast, this study argues that it presents a coherent theological interpretation of historia salutis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The analysis demonstrates that the internal structure of the preface is organised around four interconnected theological categories\u2014Providentia Dei, Verbum Dei, Ecclesia universalis, and Regnum Christi\u2014which together express Fischer\u2019s understanding of God\u2019s saving activity in history. Particular attention is also given to the Lutheran doctrine of vocation (vocatio), showing that Fischer understands King Charles XI of Sweden, the clergy, and the translators of the Bible as instruments of divine providence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article concludes that, for Fischer, the publication of the Latvian Bible was not primarily a cultural or philological achievement but an event within God\u2019s saving work, through which the Church in Livonia was incorporated into the universal Church and the ongoing history of salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keywords: Johann Fischer, Latvian Bible (1694), Lutheran Orthodoxy, historia salutis, Providentia Dei, Verbum Dei, Ecclesia universalis, Regnum Christi, vocatio, Swedish Livonia.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Beata Pa\u0161kevica<\/strong><br><em>Fischer in Sulzbach (1666\u20131672)<\/em><br><em>K\u00f6nigliche Buchdruckerey in Riga<\/em> (poster presentation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Aivar P\u00f5ldvee<\/strong><br><em>Superintendent General Johann Fischer as a Patron and His Clients<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper examines Johann Fischer\u2019s network of relationships in Livonia, focusing on his young associates and prot\u00e9g\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Kristiina Ross<\/strong><br><em>Johann Fischer and the Structure of Written Estonian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Jacob Schilling<\/strong><br><em>Das nonkonformistische Netzwerk des jungen Johann Fischer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nach seinem Abschied aus Livland (1699) kehrte Johann Fischer in seine Heimatstadt L\u00fcbeck zur\u00fcck, wo er mit seiner Bewerbung auf die vakante Stelle des Superintendenten scheiterte. Das Scheitern, Nachfolger von August Pfeiffer, einem prominenten Vertreter der lutherischen Orthodoxie, zu werden, wirft die Frage nach der theologischen Verortung Fischers auf. Der junge Theologiestudent Fischer war in den 1660er Jahren in L\u00fcbeck an der Abhaltung von Konventikeln beteiligt und geriet als Predigerkandidat in Stade mit der kirchlichen Hierarchie in Konflikt. Nicht zuletzt die Streitschriften Pfeiffers hatten diese Ereignisse auch noch 30 Jahre danach in Erinnerung gerufen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anhand von Fischers Korrespondenznetzwerk geht der Beitrag der Frage nach, inwieweit Fischer in seinen jungen Jahren nonkonformistischen Ansichten anhing, aber auch, welche Abgrenzungen er dabei vornahm. Fischers N\u00e4he zu Spener, aber auch seine radikale Phase in jungen Jahren, d\u00fcrfte der ausschlaggebende Grund f\u00fcr sein Scheitern in L\u00fcbeck im Jahre 1699 gewesen sein.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>U\u0123is Sildegs<\/strong><br><em>Johann Fischer as a Theology of Removing Intermediaries: A Structural Reinterpretation of Livonian Lutheranism (1680\u20131705)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper proposes a new interpretative framework for understanding Johann Fischer\u2019s work in Livonia by identifying a single theological principle that unifies his otherwise disparate administrative, linguistic, and ecclesiastical decisions. Drawing on published sources, including the 1687 Bible conference documents and Fischer\u2019s own writings, the paper argues that Fischer consistently acted from a christological conviction that every human intermediary between the Word and the hearer is provisional, service-oriented, and\u2014where possible\u2014reducible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all his major decisions Fischer reduces the number of intermediaries between the Word and the listener. This perspective allows a structural reinterpretation of several key episodes: his insistence on translating Scripture from Greek rather than Luther\u2019s German; his advocacy for vernacular orthography against clerical convenience; his establishment of the royal printing press outside municipal control; his resistance to estate patronage based on Augsburg Confession XXVIII; his program of books, schools, and catechisms designed to shift religious competence from clerical presence to textual availability; and even his use of anonymity and pseudonyms as a theological gesture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paper also explains Fischer\u2019s unique position between orthodoxy and separatist Pietism: orthodoxy built intermediaries, Pietism replaced them, while Fischer sought fewer of them. This \u201cnowhere position\u201d led to his marginalization in Livonia but made him a suitable arbiter in Halle\u2019s central Pietist conflict in 1700. Finally, the paper shows how Fischer\u2019s theology reached its full realization only after his departure, when war and plague removed the last intermediary\u2014state power\u2014and left the printed Word in the hands of lay households.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Gvido Straube<\/strong><br><em>Die Bauernschulpolitik in Liefland w\u00e4hrend der Amtszeit J. Fischers \u2013 Ideen und Wirklichkeit<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Abstract<\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Die Geschichte des Baltikums und insbesondere Livlands, Kurlands und Estlands hat eine interessante Seite \u2013 die Bildungspolitik und die Bauernschulen. Viele Historiker und Liebhaber der Geschichte sprechen oft in h\u00f6chsten Lobesworten \u00fcber die schwedische Bildungspolitik, die die schwedischen K\u00f6nige im Laufe des 17. Jahrhunderts im Baltikum realisiert haben. Nat\u00fcrlich war die Entwicklung in den St\u00e4dten viel \u00fcberzeugender und ohne \u201edoch\u201c und \u201eaber\u201c sprechen wir \u00fcber die st\u00e4dtischen k\u00f6niglichen Lyzeen und die Universit\u00e4t in Dorpat. Doch wenn die Bauernschulen auf die B\u00fchne der Geschichte kommen, sind die Ergebnisse dieser Politik unklar und in vielen F\u00e4llen leider schief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vielleicht kann man den Anfang der schwedischen Bauernschulpolitik in Liefland mit K\u00f6nig Gustav Adolph ansetzen. Die Notwendigkeit und die Pl\u00e4ne waren ziemlich klar, doch die Realisierung war nicht so effektiv. Meistens war die Liefl\u00e4ndische Lutherische Kirche die Institution, die mehrere Ideen ausprobiert hat, und die Leitung der Kirche und J. Fischer pers\u00f6nlich haben in den Kampf f\u00fcr die Seelen der Liefl\u00e4nder Zeit und M\u00fche investiert. Auch der von Fischer pers\u00f6nlich nach Liefland eingeladene Pastor Ernst Gl\u00fcck wurde in diese Aktivit\u00e4ten einbezogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ziel des Vortrags ist es, einige dieser Ideen zu betrachten und die Ergebnisse der Bauernschulpolitik zu analysieren, um Probleme und Hindernisse zutage zu bringen: die Rekrutierung und Ausbildung der Lehrer, ihre Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen, das Gehalt, das sogenannte Schulland oder K\u00fcsterland. Ein weiteres gro\u00dfes Problem war der Bauer selbst \u2013 n\u00e4mlich die Frage, wann der lettische Bauer verstand, dass Bauernschulen und Ausbildung f\u00fcr seine Kinder n\u00fctzlich sein k\u00f6nnten.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-bottom:4px\"><strong>Kai Tafenau<\/strong><br><em>Johann Fischer als Organisator der estnischen Bibel\u00fcbersetzung<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The detailed conference programme, including session times, will be published here. The conference will open with a welcome address by Dr Marianne Schr\u00f6ter, Director of the Francke Foundations. 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