Stefan Heid, priest of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Director of the RIGG since 1.1.2011, habilitated in 2000 at the University of Bonn in Ancient Church History, Patrology and Christian Archaeology. Since 2001 he has been professor of liturgical history and hagiography at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome.
Johan Ickx (* 1962), in office since 11 October 2024, is a Belgian historian and has worked as an archivist in Rome for decades. He is responsible for the historical archives of the Department for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. In recent years, he has made a name for himself primarily through his publications in the field of papal history in the first half of the 20th century.
Johannes Grohe (Aachen) studied history and education in Bonn and Aachen and theology in Rome, Pamplona and Augsburg. He has been editor of the journal Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum (now: Annales Historiae Conciliorum) since 2008. 1997 until 2024 he was been Professor of Medieval Church History at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce in Rome. He is a member of the directorate since 2010, was vice-director of the RIGG from 2012 until 2024 and is since its foundation in 2012 a board member of the Foundation for the Promotion of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.
Sascha Priester (Munich / Rome) studied Classical Archaeology, Ancient History and Provincial Roman Archaeology in Munich and Cologne. After his master's thesis on myth images and the handling of consolation and mourning in Roman funerary buildings, he researched ancient high-rise buildings during a stay of several years at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome and published his dissertation on the subject.
Jörg Voigt (Hanover) studied history and English studies in Jena and Nottingham. In 2009, he received his doctorate from the University of Jena on late medieval beguinage. In the same year, he began his career for the higher archival service at the Lower Saxony State Archives, where he has worked as an archival councillor or senior councillor since 2011, and in the Hanover department since 2021. In the period from 2016 to 2021, he was seconded to the German Historical Institute in Rome to work on the 'Repertorium Germanicum'.
Andreas Raub (Rome) studied Catholic theology, art history and history in Gießen, Rome and Berlin and completed his doctorate at Humboldt University in 2019 on the phenomenon of furnishing churches with Italian altarpieces from the holdings of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie.
(1 September 2024 to 31 July 2026)
Sebastian Grünbaum (* 1985 in Helsinki) was ordained in 2011 for the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland and began his Ph.D. studies at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis (USA) in 2022. His topic is the reception history of the Council of Trent.
Grünbaum is supported by the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship.
(from 1 September 2024 until 31 July 2026)
Antun Kovcalija (* 1992 in Zagreb) from Bosnia and Herzegovina studied history at the Catholic University of Zagreb and is beginning his specialised studies at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology.
Kovcalija holds the free place provided by the college.
Franz Malzl (* 1998 in Baden, Austria) studied philosophy, Catholic religious education and Catholic theology in Vienna. In his doctoral studies at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana, he is focussing on the history of the reception of the Council of Trent.
Malzl is supported by the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship.
Since 1 September 2021
Dr Federica Germana Giordani (* 1987 in Rome) received her doctorate from the Sapienza in 2016 with a thesis on historical linguistics. She works at the Vatican Archives and is a freelancer for the Society for the Study of Conciliar History.
Since 1 January 2016
Dr Pierluca Azzaro (born 1970), Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Catholic University of Milan since 2007, is responsible for the Italian edition of Joseph Ratzinger's Opera Omnia. He is the contact person in academic matters for the Roman Library Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI.
Since May 2021
Father Dr. Augustinus Sander OSB from Maria Laach has been working at the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity since 2019. He is the contact person for the Martin Chemnitz Fellowship within the project "Studies on the Reception of the Council of Trent in Contemporary Lutheranism".
Since 1 March 2020
Dr. phil. Karin Mair (* 1976 in Wels, Upper Austria) has been a member of staff at the St. Peter's Cathedral Construction Office since 2008.
since 1 September 2024
Dr. Nicola Gadaleta (* 1993 in Molfetta, Apulia) studied Modern Philology at the Catholic University in Milan. In 2023, he obtained his PhD in Historical Sciences from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici of the University of the Republic of San Marino with a thesis entitled 'The Cathedral Chapter of Bari from the Origins to the Early Angevin Age'.
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