Science Center for History since 1888
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.
Avv. Paolo Mammola (* 1988 in Torre del Greco, Province of Naples) is a Doctor of Law (Ph.D.) in Law and Global Market and Legal Officer in the PNRR Mission Unit of the Ministry of University and Research (MUR).
The information sheet, which has served the RIGG faithfully for years and has been distributed thousands of times, now has an Italian twin, which is also different in colour.
On 15 March, the inner circle of the Roman Institute treated themselves to a trip to the papal city of Viterbo. The train from Rome offers a cheap and fast way of travelling.
The ceremony in honour of Cardinal Kurt Koch on 22 March in the church of Campo Santo Teutonico with the presentation of the commemorative gift ‘Unity and Uniqueness. Ecclesiological Concretions in Ecumenical Perspective’ can now be seen on three videos:
Juan David Montejo (Bogotá, Colombia - * 1999) is currently taking part in a diploma programme for medieval studies in Rome, organised by the Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Études Mediévales (FIDEM). After studying philosophy and Latin philology in Cologne, he is completing a master's degree in medieval and renaissance studies in Munich, specialising in medieval Latin philology and medieval philosophy.
The RIGG's annual report will be sent out again at Easter. It contains the Institute's activities in 2024. We would like to sincerely thank all of the Institute's benefactors (Hall of Fame) who have made this work possible..
Dr Herman H. Schwedt passed away on 13 March at the age of 90. He had been a member of the RIGG since 2014 and lived with his wife in Salsomaggiore. He came from Aachen and was head of the diocesan archives and the diocesan library in Limburg from 1978 to 1999.
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