Science Center for History since 1888
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.
The 126th General Assembly of the Görres-Gesellschaft in Regensburg ended successfully with over 300 registrations and marked a stabilising stage on the way to its former greatness after the unfortunate Corona years.
The Roman Quarterly (Römische Quartalschrift), published by the Roman Institute of the Görres Society and the College of Campo Santo Teutonico, is now available digitised from the first volume 1887 to the volume 2009. These 103 volumes are now available online free of charge on the Index Theologicus platform of the University of Tübingen.
Since September 2024, Dr Florian Pichler has been studying at the Pontifical Lateran University for a degree in both law. In December 2023, he completed his doctorate in Vienna on clerical confidentiality and the secrecy of the confessional in canon law and in Austrian and German religious law.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
