Halle

Halle (Halle an der Saale) is a city in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany, whose early growth rested on salt production; it is first documented in 806. The composer George Frideric Handel was born there in 1685. Its university, founded in 1694 and now joined with Wittenberg's as the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, became a centre of Lutheran Pietism under August Hermann Francke, who founded the Francke Foundations, a complex of schools and an orphanage. Friedrich Schleiermacher taught theology there from 1804 to 1807. The university also drew Jewish students, among them the future Orthodox rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer, who earned his doctorate there in 1844, and the mathematician Georg Cantor taught there from 1869 to 1913.

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