Davide De Caprio (* 1985 in Terracina) (academia.edu; researchgate) holds a licentiate and a master's degree in philosophy from La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2022 he was awarded a PhD in Philosophy of Religion from the University of Strasbourg with a thesis on "Theology and Philosophy in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI" (in press).
The strong internationality of the Roman Institute of the Görres Society has made it necessary to offer the website now also in English. The language change takes place at the top right of each page (flags). We ask all our friends to make this innovation known in their English-speaking circles. The establishment of the third language page is accompanied by a technical renewal of the website, which of course will not be noticeable to the user himself.
Margarete Jäger was born near Rosenheim and lived in Munich for many years. There she studied art history and modern history at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Even as a teenager, she was often drawn to Italy. In 1996, she decided to move to Rome for good. So far, I have led study tours in Italy in Tuscany, Marche, Puglia and Lazio and is also a certified Rome city guide.
Anna Maria Brunner from Ainau in Bavaria worked as a dental assistant in Munich. In 1986, she moved to Rome for the first time for a longer period. In 1988, she finally broke camp in Germany and found employment in the Eternal City at the "most beautiful square" in the world", the Piazza Navona, in the German dental practice of Prof. Zappe (until 2007).
Dr. Fernando López Arias (*1982 in Málaga, Spain) studied Liturgical Theology and Architecture in Madrid, Rome and Pamplona. Since 2020, he has been a professor at the Institute of Liturgy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He is also a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His areas of interest include the Sacrament of Penance, celebrative space and the Liturgical Reform of Vatican II. He recently published El Concilio Vaticano II y la arquitectura sagrada, a study on the reform of contemporary sacred architecture in the light of archival sources.
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society will be awarding the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship, newly established on the basis of a private foundation, in the next few years. The doctoral scholarship is intended for historical-dogmatic studies on the reception of the Council of Trent in contemporary Lutheranism.