Dr. Wolfgang Splitter

Research Associate
E-Mail: splitter@zusas.uni-halle.de
Halle office: Dachritzstraße 12, R 202

Dr. Wolfgang Splitter is a research associate at the Halle-Wittenberg Center for United States Studies. After taking his Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Splitter conducted research in American Lutheranism and German immigration to British North America. From 1999 to 2000, he was a visiting scholar in the History Department of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). Between 2005 and 2010, he received fellowships from the John Carter Brown Library, the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Dr. Splitter is the author of Pastors, People, Politics: German Lutherans in Pennsylvania, 1740–1790 (Trier, 1998). Other publications deal with the Lutheran missions in Georgia and Pennsylvania sponsored by the Francke Foundations in Halle (then located in Prussia) and with eighteenth-century American exceptionalism. Under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, he translated into English and edited volumes 3 (1753–1756) and 4 (1757–1762) of The Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg (Rockport, Maine, 2009–2010). His co-editor was Professor Timothy J. Wengert of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Dr. Splitter is currently preparing a socio-biography of H. M. Mühlenberg (1711–1787), the chief organizer of churched Lutheranism in North America. This work is part of the ZUSAS research cluster “A World in Words: Halle Pietists between the New World and the Old Order.”