Science Center for History since 1888
The bookshop "La Leoniana" in the immediate vicinity of St Peter's Square has made an agreement with the RIGG whereby all members of the RIGG receive a discount ("sconto") of 10% (no guarantee). The bookshop is international, so it sells books in all languages.
Tim Hager (* 1996, Passau) studied for a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Historical Sciences at the University of Passau from 2018 to 2024. His Master's thesis is about a Catholic priest from Lower Bavaria in his role as a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Tim Hager is currently spending a semester abroad in Rome in the summer semester of 2024. Following this, he intends to start his doctorate.
Giovanni Howard Muz (* Pordenone, 1998) studied Classical Literature and the Sciences of Antiquity at the University of Udine, dealing, in his three-year thesis, with historical echoes in the tragedy of Euripides and, in his master's thesis, with portraiture with aegis from Alexander the Great to the Antonines. In addition he obtained a second-level master's degree at the Scuola Superiore 'di Toppo Wassermann', Udine. He is currently a fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (PIAC) in Rome, and intends to carry out doctoral research there.
During the retirement ceremony for Prof Dr Johannes Grohe, he was presented with a comprehensive commemorative publication at the Pontifical University of S. Croce. The following short video offers an insight into the ceremony.
On Thursday, 30 Mai, from 6 p.m., the Roman Institute of the Görres Society will celebrate its annual summer festival in San Giovanni a Porta Latina (Via di Porta Latina 17). It will begin with Holy Mass in the church, followed by a cheerful picnic in the monastery garden of the Rosminians, directly on the Aurelian city wall.
Who wants to participate is kindly asked to contact - for the picknick -
In an academic ceremony in the packed auditorium of the Pontifical University of S. Croce in Piazza Navona on 9 March, Prof. Dr Johannes Grohe, Professor of Church History, was presented with a voluminous commemorative publication, a "true opus of scholarship" (p. X).
The Roman Institute has, at the end of 2023, with 252 members continuously increased its membership share of the entire Görres Society within 13 years from 2.47 % to now 8.78 %, although the membership of the entire Görres Society is growing again (2021: 2.806; 2022: 2.840; 2023: 2.871). The strongest section of the Görres Society in terms of numbers is History. Most of the new members of the Roman Institute also join this section.
Every year around Easter, the Roman Institute of the Görres Society publishes and sends out a detailed, illustrated annual report. However, the report is already available as a PDF and can be viewed and downloaded here:
My name is Elias A. Krexner OSB and I am a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria. Before joining, I completed my law studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna. After my novitiate, my theological studies took me back to the University of Vienna for three years.
Mihajlo Džamtovski (* 1996 in Pančevo, Serbia) completed his bachelor studies in archaeology at the University of Belgrade and his master studies in archaeology at the University of Ljubljana. He is currently a student in the preparatory year of doctoral studies at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome and is a holder of the scholarship of the Holy See. His research interests include the period of late antiquity in the Balkans and the reception and usage of archaeology and history by contemporary societies in the central Balkan area.
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