"Görres" meets "Görres": Wolfgang Brückner in Rome

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.

A very interesting exchange took place in the church on 26 October. Through his connection with the Görres Society, Prof. Brückner had been in contact with Erwin Gatz, former director of the RIGG, for decades. We also talked about Prelate Georg Schreiber and his student Rudolf Morsey. Schreiber had founded the ‘German Institute for Folklore’ in Münster in 1933 and the section for religious folklore of the Görres Society in 1934; both were a thorn in the side of the Nazis, so Schreiber had to go into hiding. After the war, Schreiber headed the section for religious folklore until his death in 1963.

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