Forum for Historical Research since 1888
Located next to St. Peter's Basilica, the Campo Santo Teutonico is the retreat of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society (RIGG), the well-known academic centre for research into the history of the Church and Christian cultural heritage.
Work has begun, particularly at the entrance and on the balustrade of the historic cemetery wall of Campo Santo Teutonico, and should be completed by November.
Stefan Heid, Rector of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology and as such President of the Committee of the 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology, invites you to participate. The congress will take place from 2 to 6 September in Belgrade (Serbia).
Susanne Kubersky-Piredda from the Bibliotheca Hertziana and Tobias Daniels have published an impressive volume on the so-called German national church of the "Anima" in Piazza Navona in Rome in the first three centuries of its existence. It is part of the Hertziana's larger "Roma communis patria" project, which examines Rome's national churches and their confraternities from a historical and art-historical perspective.
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society is holding a conference on the chronograph of 354 from 27 to 30 November 2024. It is being organised by Dr Matthias Simperl (Augsburg) in collaboration with Stefan Heid.
The program for the 126th General Assembly of the Görres Society in Regensburg has now been published. The AGM has already had to be postponed twice, but now the effort put into the preparations (Nikolaus Korber and Albrecht Weiland are on the local committee) is finally being rewarded.
Deadlines: 3 and 31 July
In Graz they offer a Professuorship for History of Art of 15th-17th centuries (3.7.).
The University of Uppsala in Sveden offers a Postdoc for Archaeology (31.7.).
Deadline: 15 August
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz awards scholarships for doctoral students in the fields of European history and the history of religion as well as other historical disciplines.
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The anthology by Christopher Kast and Claudia Märtl on papal journeys from the 11th to the 15th century has now been published as the 71st supplement to the Römische Quartalschrift. It comprises the papers presented at the conference held at the RIGG in October 2022, which was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
The Munich regional group invites interested parties to a lecture by Dr des. Annabelle Fuchs (LMU Munich). Topic: "How Aaron died and Moses ruled over Ethiopia - Unknown insights into medieval Jewish narrative literature". The lecture starts at 6.30 pm at the Institute of Egyptology, Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10, Room 242 (2nd floor) / 80333 Munich. Due to the subsequent restaurant visit, please register with
Der Held des Campo Santo Teutonico, der irische Priester Hugh O'Flaherty, der tausenden verfolgter Menschen unter der nationalsozialistischen Besatzung in Rom zur Flucht verhalf, war im Vatikan keineswegs unbekannt.
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation (Cologne) is funding the major conference on "Time, Space and Calendar in Late Antique Rome", which is being organised by the RIGG from 27 to 30 November 2024. Participants are welcome.
The PIAC together with the Pont. Commissione di Archeologia Sacra as well as the Secretary of State provide two 3-year scholarships.
Constantin Felber (* 2003 in Munich) began studying law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg after graduating from high school in Munich, specialising in commercial criminal law. He is currently in his 6th semester and is a scholarship holder of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation and spokesman of the HSS-Hochschulgruppe Leipzig. He is very interested in canon law and is completing an internship at the Vatican Dicastery for Legislative Texts.
At 5 pm, Dr Stefanos Athanasiou will give his inaugural lecture at the Chair of Systematic Theology at LMU Munich on the topic of "The deification of man in Orthodox anthropology". Cardinal Kurt Koch and Rev. Rita Famos will give welcoming addresses. Athanasiou was involved in the RIGG conference "Unity and Uniqueness".
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