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.
Nikolas Möller
The remains of ancient buildings dating from the 8th century BC to the 2nd century AD came to light in 2014 during renovation work in a residential complex on the Aventine. The Roman domus, which was inhabited from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD and remodelled several times, impresses above all with its detailed mosaics and wall paintings. Then as now, it was not the poorest of Romans who lived here.
The meeting of the student circles will take place in Rome again, this time focussing on the topic ‘On the Holy Year 2025: Holiness as the goal of theology and life’. The speakers will be Cardinal Kurt Koch, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Stefan Heid, Stefan Würges, Helmut Hoping, Josef Spindelböck and Christoph Ohly. The event is open to all interested parties and will be broadcast by Radio Horeb and EWTN.
Jakob Ohm from Bielefeld spent his theological year in Rome in 2013/14, took part in the Rome seminar of the ‘Angelicum’ with S. Heid and was an assistant at the RIGG. Here he mainly helped with the editing of the conference proceedings ‘Places of Refuge and Personal Networks’. On 18 May, he was ordained a priest in Paderborn and will now work as a vicar in Herne. Congratulations!
The Vatican Secret Archives, now called the Vatican Apostolic Archives, had been headed since 1997 by the Barnabite Sergio Pagano (* 1948), who was consecrated bishop in 2007. The new prefect is the Augustinian priest Rocco Ronzani (* 1978) from the ‘Augustinianum’, a patristic scholar who was previously responsible for the archives of the Italian Augustinian Province. Pagano remains in the Vatican and also becomes Assessor of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences.
Anyone looking at Trajan's Column today will probably be delighted by the unobstructed view of the memorial to the emperor. At the time of its erection (112/113 AD), things were different, as the column was
column was surrounded by the wings of a library and the Basilica Ulpia. This created an inner courtyard, which is no longer preserved as such today.
The second double issue of volume 118 (2023) of RQ was published on time in May 2024. It contains the following articles, all of which can also be read online (see link below):
Work has begun, particularly at the entrance and on the balustrade of the historic cemetery wall of Campo Santo Teutonico, and should be completed by November.
Stefan Heid, Rector of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and as such President of the Committee of the 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology, invites you to participate. The congress will take place from 2 to 6 September in Belgrade (Serbia).
Susanne Kubersky-Piredda from the Bibliotheca Hertziana and Tobias Daniels have published an impressive volume on the so-called German national church of the "Anima" in Piazza Navona in Rome in the first three centuries of its existence. It is part of the Hertziana's larger "Roma communis patria" project, which examines Rome's national churches and their confraternities from a historical and art-historical perspective.
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society is holding a conference on the chronograph of 354 from 27 to 30 November 2024. It is being organised by Dr Matthias Simperl (Augsburg) in collaboration with Stefan Heid.
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne) is funding the major conference on "Time, Space and Calendar in Late Antique Rome", which is being organised by the RIGG from 27 to 30 November 2024. Participants are welcome.
Deadline: 15 August
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz awards scholarships for doctoral students in the fields of European history and the history of religion as well as other historical disciplines.
sciences.
On the initiative of Prof Carla Salvetti from the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology (but institutionally independent of it), a community was formed last year under the name ‘Post Scriptum’, which offers cultural events in Rome. The programme includes, for example, photo tours, visits to historical sites and lectures. The focus is on excursions to get to know archaeological, historical and artistic Rome better. You can become a member of the association.
The Munich regional group invites interested parties to a lecture by Dr des. Annabelle Fuchs (LMU Munich). Topic: "How Aaron died and Moses ruled over Ethiopia - Unknown insights into medieval Jewish narrative literature". The lecture starts at 6.30 pm at the Institute of Egyptology, Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10, Room 242 (2nd floor) / 80333 Munich. Due to the subsequent restaurant visit, please register with Florian Rösch.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
