Science Center for History since 1888
The RIGG has an information sheet that has probably been distributed thousands of times over the last 12 years. It has now been reprinted again and features slight changes, in particular the addition of the new Vice Director Dr Johan Ickx and the Hall of Fame.
Dr Yvonne Maria Werner, Professor of History at Lund University, works primarily on Nordic Catholic culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. She came across the Danish convert and priest Peter Schindler (1892-1967), who studied at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and lived at the College of Priests at Campo Santo Teutonico from 1932-1933 and 1947-1961. Mrs Werner now came to the RIGG to prepare a lecture on the very colourful personality of Peter Schindler.
The German-Italian medievalist Prof Dr Hubert Houben has published numerous works on the Italian Middle Ages, including the booklet Die Normannen published by Beck-Verlag for a large audience. He is particularly interested in the Teutonic Order. Houben is a member of the National Academy ‘dei Lincei’ in Rome, the most important academy in Italy.
The RIGG has enjoyed close contact with the Pontifical College of the Anima in Piazza Navona for many years and enjoys its support in many ways. It is therefore a special honour to welcome Michael Max, Rector of the Anima since 2020, as a new member. Max holds a doctorate in liturgical studies and is therefore also a colleague of the undersigned in terms of his expertise.
Franz Malzl (* 1998 in Baden, Austria) has been a Chemnitz scholarship holder since September, joining the RIGG team alongside scholarship holders Sebastian Grünbaum and Antun Kovcalija. Malzl studied at the University of Vienna. There he has completed a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Catholic Religious Education as well as a diploma in Catholic Theology. He is currently studying for a doctorate at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana with a thesis on the reception of the Council of Trent.
Prayer for the departed members, directors and benefactors of the Roman Institute
On the Feast of All Saints on Friday, 1 November, the annual Vespers for the Dead will take place on the eve of All Souls' Day at 5 pm at Campo Santo Teutonico. The graves are blessed, including those of the directors Johann Peter Kirsch, Stephan Ehses, Hermann M. Stoeckle, Engelbert Kirschbaum, Ludwig Voelkl and Erwin Gatz. The ceremony ends with the Salve Regina at the central Achtermann cross. Everyone is cordially invited.
The members of the RIGG Rudolf Heinrich and Frank Gebhard Zander passed away this year.
Simone Andreoni MA, an art historian who graduated from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and is now a PhD student in Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. The subject of his research is the lives of artists, patrons and other subjects of the Holy Roman Empire in Rome from 1580 to 1700.
The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Ignacio Lascurain Bernstorff to the Board of Directors of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft.
The President of the Görres-Gesellschaft, Prof. Dr Bernd Engler, has appointed Dr Johan Ickx as Vice Director of the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft. Ickx succeeds Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe, who has returned to Germany.
On 8 September 2024, the house community of Campo Santo Teutonico celebrated the 25th anniversary of profession of Father Augustinus Sander OSB, Benedictine monk of Maria Laach Abbey.
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