Forum for Historical Research since 1888
Located next to St. Peter's Basilica, the Campo Santo Teutonico is the retreat of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG), the well-known academic centre for research into the history of the Church and Christian cultural heritage.
The Leibniz Science Campus Mainz/Frankfurt is offering a series of lectures on Byzantium in the summer semester 2024, some of them in English.
Topic: "Ein Meisterspion im Vatikan? Das mysteriöse Leben des Prälaten Rudolf Gerlach (1886-1946)"
Hartmut Benz (Ruppichteroth), one of the best experts on the Roman Curia in the 19th/20th century, has shed light on the opaque life of the German Curia prelate Rudolf Gerlach, who came from Baden, in three articles in the Römische Quartalschrift (2021-2023) and presents the results of his research.
Beginning: 6 pm
Location: Hall Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
For participation via Zoom please contact
Tim Hager (* 1996, Passau) studied for a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Historical Sciences at the University of Passau from 2018 to 2024. His Master's thesis is about a Catholic priest from Lower Bavaria in his role as a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Tim Hager is currently spending a semester abroad in Rome in the summer semester of 2024. Following this, he intends to start his doctorate.
In the summer semester, the Association for Late Antique Archaeology and Byzantine Art History in Munich is offering several lectures. The speakers are Luigi Pinchetti (Bonn), Gabriele Castiglia (Rome), Jon C. Cubas Díaz (Göttingen) and Stefanie Archut (Bonn).
In April 2023, the writer and novelist Martin Mosebach gave a public lecture at the RIGG about "his Rome". If you missed it back then, you can listen to a similar lecture by Mosebach in the Tele-Academy (2018):
Giovanni Howard Muz (* Pordenone, 1998) studied Classical Literature and the Sciences of Antiquity at the University of Udine, dealing, in his three-year thesis, with historical echoes in the tragedy of Euripides and, in his master's thesis, with portraiture with aegis from Alexander the Great to the Antonines. In addition he obtained a second-level master's degree at the Scuola Superiore 'di Toppo Wassermann', Udine. He is currently a fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (PIAC) in Rome, and intends to carry out doctoral research there.
The news about the visit of Augsburg Bishop Bertram Meier to the graves of the Ulma family in Markowa (Poland) is an occasion to draw attention to a book about the Ulma family. During the Second World War, the Ulma family hid Jews in their home for years, even though it was punishable by death. This could not remain hidden, and so they were denounced to the Nazis.
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl will be studying at the RIGG for several weeks. He has been a member of the advisory board of the Görres Society since 1981 and from 1993 to 2011 held the so-called Concordat Chair of Philosophy at the LMU Munich, where the founding president of the Görres Society, Count Georg von Hertling, once sat. We hope to welcome Vossenkuhl as a speaker at a Görres lecture soon and recommend his book on what is and what should be:
The March issue of the popular archaeology magazine "Archeo" reports on the front page about the excavations at the Shepherds' Field in Bethlehem, which were started last year by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land and the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology and are expected to continue for several years.
The international bookshop "La Leoniana" near the Vatican has reopened under the management of Chiara Proietti. It's worth popping in and having a chat with her. The RIGG is planning to enter into a co-operation with the Leoniana. We will inform you about this soon.
Jobst Knigge (Hamburg) speaks on "Der Kampf zwischen Bundesrepublik Deutschland und DDR um die deutsche Kultur in Rom".
Location: Aula Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
Start: 6 pm
Who wishes to participate via Zoom is invited to contact Stefan Heid.
Deadline: 22 May
During the retirement ceremony for Prof Dr Johannes Grohe, he was presented with a comprehensive commemorative publication at the Pontifical University of S. Croce. The following short video offers an insight into the ceremony.
The "Cooperatores Veritatis" conference on Ratzinger in dialogue with philosophy will take place from 17 to 19 April in Mexico City at the Universidad Panamericana. The conference is supported by the Ratzinger Foundation in Madrid.
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