You are cordially invited to the official presentation of the monumental four-volume work Protestant Church Architecture of the 16th–18th Centuries in Europe, edited by Prof. Jan Harasimowicz. The event will take place on Tuesday, 19 May 2026, in the historic Aula Leopoldina of the University of Wrocław, and will open with a lecture by Prof. Jan Harasimowicz.
This opus is the first comprehensive overview of Protestant church architecture in early modern Europe. In production for may years, with the collaboration of numerous international scholars, it offers:
Prof. Harasimowicz: “With this book we show how deeply the values of European culture are rooted in the material heritage of Christianity. What do these beautiful churches – from Finland, Sweden, and Norway to Iceland, Serbia, and Slovenia – tell us? They bear witness to the Christian soul of Europe.“
A book table will be available on site, where visitors may browse and purchase the volumes. Find more information on the book on the publisher’s website or in the flyer.
The work is published as Volume 4 of the REFORC series Kunst und Konfession in der frühen Neuzeit, published by Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg.
| Date | 19 May 2026 |
| Time | 14:00 (the conference begins at 13:00, the lecture by Prof. Jan Harasimowicz starts 13:15) |
| Program | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity |
| Venue | Aula Leopoldina, plac Uniwersytecki 1, 50-145 Wrocław, Poland |
| Registration | Not required |
Prof. Jan Harasimowicz is an art historian with a distinguished academic career at the universities of Wrocław and Toruń. He has served as Professor of Early Modern Art History, is a member of important international committees, and is for many years the Director of the University of Wrocław Museum. For his scholarly achievements, he has received numerous honors, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Between 2004 and 2024, he led Polish–German expert seminars as well as a major research project on Protestant church architecture of the 16th–18th centuries.
