Science Center for History since 1888
Every new year is an occasion for looking back and looking ahead, and the Roman Institute of the Görres-Gesellschaft is no exception. We would like to thank all our friends, colleagues and supporters who have helped to plan and implement an ambitious programme and lead the Institute into a bright future.
Johannes Kindler comes from Schierling in the Upper Palatinate and is a priest of the Missionaries of the Holy Cross. He has been studying in Rome at the Dominican University Angelicum since 2023. He is currently in the process of completing his licentiate with a Mariological thesis with a special focus on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger. Outside of his studies, he is working in a branch of his order in the diocese of Tyler in Texas.
Dr Alberto Camplani is Professor of Ancient Christian Literature at La Sapienza University in Rome and a specialist in Egyptology and Coptic culture. He therefore gave a lecture at the RIGG during the conference on the chronograph of 354 (picture). He has produced numerous important publications, including on the earliest history of the Church of Alexandria. He recently founded, together with his collegues, the Centre for the study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages at the Sapienza, and we can look forward to his research.
After we discovered the book "Historische Intuitionen'" (Herder) in the shop window of the Bercker bookshop in Kevelaer, it is now also appearing in the shop window of Pustet in Regensburg (see picture). The following video introduces the book:
Dr Roberto Wiedmann (* 1977 in Rome) studied philosophy in the history of science department at the University ‘la Sapienza’ in Rome and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the philosophy of the school in Padua. His interest in the history of the nunciature in Munich and Cardinal Giuseppe Garampi was sparked by his work at the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Wiedmann is currently working at the bookshop La Leoniana in Rome.
A whole range of publications from the Roman Institute of the Görres Society are available in bookshops for Christmas presents. You can find them all here.
On the page of our library catalogue we also regularly point out new publications in the ‘Karusell’, which can also be purchased in bookshops, see here.
Tobias Wiendl (* 2003) is studying political science at the Grande École Sciences Po in Paris and law at the University of Lorraine. He is currently on an exchange year specialising in Politics & Government at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome.
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.
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