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.
Dr Chiara Cecalupo, Professor of Museology at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome, will speak on the subject of ‘The fascination of the catacombs in 19th/20th century European Catholicism’.
Start: 6 pm
Location: Aula Pope Benedict XVI (Campo Santo Teutonico)
For participation via Zoom please contact
The originally planned lecture by Sible de Blaauw will take place at a later date.
The Gregorian University YouTube channel offers four English-language lectures from the conference ‘Unity and Unicity’ in March 2024:
The Diocese of Fulda invites you to the anniversary conference 10 Years Gangolf-Schrimpf-Fellowship on 13/14 February 2025 in the Auditorium maximum of the Faculty of Theology. The Fulda monastery goes back to Winfried-Bonifatius and is the nucleus of the mission among the Hessians and far beyond.
Before Christmas, Lucas Wiegelmann published an article in the NOZ about the archaeological excavations being carried out by the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology under the direction of RIGG member Prof. Gabriele Castiglia (photo).
Deadlines: 15 February and 15 August
The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz awards scholarships for doctoral students in the fields of European history and history of religion as well as other historical disciplines.
The lectures given by Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prof Johannes Grohe, Prof Ralph Weimann and Prof Helmut Moll at the Theological Summer Academy 2024 in Augsburg can now be viewed on video.
The journal of the RIGG, the ‘Römische Quartalschrift’, comprises both the annual volumes, which are now accessible online free of charge from the first volume in 1887 (until 2009), and the supplementary volumes. The volumes that are still commercially available (from volume 62 onwards) can now also be viewed on the RQ platform of Herder-Verlag.
On behalf of the Gesellschaft für Konziliengeschichtsforschung, Johannes Grohe and Thomas Prügl have launched a new series published by Aschendorff, the first volume of which is opened in a worthy manner by Klaus Schatz with a compilation of his essays on the First Vatican Council (1869/70).
Every year, the Gesellschaft für Frankfurter Geschichte e.V. offers remarkable lectures on Frankfurt's city history, currently on the topic of ‘Frankfurt in the Weimar Republic’. The lectures usually take place in the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt (former Carmelite monastery).
Felix Beck (* 2003 in Hamburg) graduated from high school in 2021 and has been studying theology ever since. He is currently studying at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as part of a gap year.
Stefan Rebenich, Professor of Ancient History in Bern, will speak on the topic ‘’A richly illustrated calendar‘ - The chronograph of the year 354 in the scholarly debates of the 19th century" (in German). The Chronograph of 354 is a composite manuscript containing extraordinarily important texts from the 4th century that shed light on the history of Rome in pagan-Christian times.
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Deadlines: 8 and 27 January
University of Münster: Professor for Literature of the Middle Ages
University of Flensburg: Professor for Ancient History
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.
The Paul Maria Baumgarten Institute for Papal History at the University of Wuppertal is organising a study day on 17 January, which can also be followed online. Federica G. Giordani from the RIGG will be among the speakers.
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