Science Center for History since 1888
On 4 March, Professor Jan-Heiner Tück (Vienna) presented the book ‘Historische Intuitionen’ (Historical Intuitions) at the residence of the German Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. Ambassador Dr Bernhard Kotsch had invited the members of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and other guests.
A few months ago, Dr Thomas Kieslinger published the extraordinarily successful audiobook of Anton de Waal's historical novel about the end of the Papal States in 1870. The novel is entitled ‘The 20th of September’.
The homage of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society to its member Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI entitled ‘Historical Intuitions’, published by Herder, was presented by José García in Die Tagespost: ‘Before Benedict's Catheder’.
The theologian and social pedagogue Dr Stefan Geiger (* 1982 in Zams/Tyrol), Benedictine monk at Schäftlarn Abbey near Munich, is the new president of the Pontificio Istituto Liturgico (PIL) at Sant'Anselmo in Rome.
On Saturday 22 March at 6 p.m. in a festive setting in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico, Cardinal Kurt Koch will be presented with the volume Einheit und Einzigkeit. Ecclesiological Concretions in Ecumenical Perspective will be presented to Cardinal Kurt Koch. Registration is
Raphaël Hunsucker studied Classical Philology and Ancient & Medieval History at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bologna and Nijmegen. He is now about to start his PhD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, with a thesis on the refoundation of Rome in Augustan times and (Christian) Late Antiquity, supervised by Prof. Dr Olivier Hekster, Prof. Dr Sible de Blaauw and Prof. Dr David Rijser. His research focusses on the urban Roman history of antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as classical Latin epic and historiography. He has published on the Palatine, Maxentius & Constantine, St Cecilia in Trastevere and Emperor Otto III.
Father Dr Rocco Ronzani OSA, a native of Rome and Prefect of the Vatican Archives (AAS) since last summer, was previously Professor of Patristics at the Institutum Augustinianum and the Laterean University. As Prefect of the Vatican Archives, he succeeds Sergio Pagano. Since its foundation in 1888, the RIGG has been gratefully associated with the Vatican Archives through its editions of the Cameral Acts, the Nunciature Reports and the Council of Trent.
The journal of the RIGG, the ‘Römische Quartalschrift’, comprises both the annual volumes, which are now accessible online free of charge from the first volume in 1887 (until 2009), and the supplementary volumes. The volumes that are still commercially available (from volume 62 onwards) can now also be viewed on the RQ platform of Herder-Verlag.
Felix Beck (* 2003 in Hamburg) graduated from high school in 2021 and has been studying theology ever since. He is currently studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as part of a gap year.
The RIGG website, which was created by ‘Der Auftritt’ in 2018 and has been maintained since then, has once again attracted a pleasingly high number of visitors - with over 160,000 visitors last year. If you would like to support the website, please contact
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