Science Center for History since 1888
in der Mitte Wolfgang Brückner, rechts Michael Brückner
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brückner, long-time director of the Institute for Folklore Studies at Julius Maximilian University in Würzburg and equally long-time director of the Folklore Studies Section of the Görres Society (1985-2004), visited Rome with his family and students on his 95th birthday, including the Roman Institute of the Görres Society.
Jakob Lesigang (born in Vienna in 2002) successfully completed his bachelor's degree in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Vienna in the summer semester of 2025. Since October 2025, he has been living in Rome, where he is studying for a master's degree in International Cultural Management at the Rome Business School. In recent years, he has also been involved in museum education and cultural mediation.
The 127th General Assembly of the Görres Society at the end of September at the University of Mannheim – in the former electoral palace – was a real success, even a breakthrough. Here are some impressions from the perspective of the Roman Institute:
Marco R. Bettoni Pojaghi, who had been a member of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society since 2020, died unexpectedly in Rome. He passed away on 10 April at the age of 64.
The significance of the Campo Santo Teutonico and its tombs in the Middle Ages was the topic of discussion on 2 September during a visit by participants in an excursion organised by Heidelberg University as part of PD Dr Tobias Daniels' advanced seminar on the history of the Holy Years.
In a few weeks, the first double issue of the Roman Quarterly for Christian Antiquity and Church History (RQ) for 2025 will be published.
In the meantime, the academic world is moving away from Facebook in favour of LinkedIn. This social media platform is therefore becoming increasingly attractive for academic presence and collegial exchange. The RIGG is responding to this with its own page. The corresponding signé appears at the top right of the RIGG website.
The RIGG website has experienced ups and downs since 2016. After peaking in the first half of 2019, visitor numbers fell steadily, but have been rising sharply since the first half of 2024. At the end of the first half of 2025, an absolute record has now been set with 106,058 visitors in the months from January to 2025.
Since Sunday 15 June, the new rector of Campo Santo Teutonico has been the Paderborn priest Dr Peter Klasvogt. After a long phase of changing administrators since the departure of Rector Konrad Bestle, there is now once again a prospect of stability in the important phase of renewing the complex.
The program of the 127th General Meeting of the Görres Society, which will take place from September 26th to 28th in Mannheim, is complete. It has the title "Canon and Discourse", which at first glance seems cryptic.
Römisches Institut der Görres-Gesellschaft
