Dr Filip Malesevic is currently Professor of Modern European History at Bilkent University in Ankara (Turkey). His research focuses on the cultural history of the Roman Curia, Rome and the papacy between the 14th and 17th centuries.
Dr Christian Hecht, Deputy Director of the City Museum in Weimar, spent time at the RIGG researching the liturgical order of the Sistine Chapel. Further academic projects were also planned for the coming year.
Luka Marković, MA in History comes from the University of Split (Croatia). Currently he is a PhD candidate at the same university. His main field of research is the reception of the humanist writer Marko Marulić (Marcus Marullus) in Europe from the 15th to the 18th century. He is currently in Rome to visit the Vatican Library and Archive.
Dr Sascha Priester (Munich/Regensburg), consultant for archaeology at the RIGG, is visiting for a few days to work on his habilitation and prepare for the conference in November on the chronograph of 354.
At the end of September, the Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI Roman Library welcomed Dr Davide De Caprio, Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg (UR4377) and member of the RIGG. Dr De Caprio carried out bibliographical work with a view to the edition of a French-language volume devoted to the theme ‘Ratzinger reader of Augustine’. In addition, Dr. De Caprio donated two of his publications to the Library, the monograph Théologie et philosophie dans la pensée de Joseph Ratzinger/Benoît XVI (Ed. du Cerf, 2022) and the proceedings of the congress Joseph Ratzinger et la culture française (Parole et Silence, 2022).
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl will be studying at the RIGG for several weeks. He has been a member of the advisory board of the Görres Society since 1981 and from 1993 to 2011 held the so-called Concordat Chair of Philosophy at the LMU Munich, where the founding president of the Görres Society, Count Georg von Hertling, once sat. We hope to welcome Vossenkuhl as a speaker at a Görres lecture soon and recommend his book on what is and what should be:
From 21 to 27 January, Don Ricardo Sanjurjo Otero was a guest at the Institute. He was at Campo Santo from September 2019 to July 2021 as a scholarship holder of the Universidad CEU San Pablo (Madrid). He is now a priest and also teaches exegesis at the seminary in Santiago de Compostela.
Dr Marco Aimone (Vercelli / London), scientific curator and editor of the Wyvern Collection of Byzantine Early Christian Art, is a Fellow of the Antiquaries of London and a member of the Société nationale des Antiquaire de France, founded in 1804, and the RIGG. He is currently conducting research at the RIGG and lecturing on early Christian cult objects at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology.
During her stay at the Roman Institute (Oct. 2023), Dr Gordana Jeremić will deal with topics from early Christian archaeology and the history of this discipline, especially with regard to Sebien. She is interested in the work of the first explorer of the early Christian necropolis of Sirmium (today Sremska Mitrovica), the archaeologist and priest Adolf Hytrek, from the circle around Anton de Waal, rector of Campo Santo Teutonico. She would like to present the results of her research at the 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology in Belgrade 18th International Congress of Christian Archaeology in Belgrade and in a corresponding publication.
Dr. iur. Frank Czerner, holder of the professorship for law in social work (and in digital forensics) at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences in Middle Saxony, has been spending his research sabbatical at Campo Santo Teutonico since the end of April 2022. He is investigating the question of the extent to which the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is reflected in Roman Catholic canon law, the Corpus Iuris Canonici (CIC), and whether the text of the UN Convention can be regarded as an interpretative aid (or even as an interpretative directive) of the CIC that protects the welfare of children.
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