Eva-Maria Jung-Inglessis

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Eva-Maria Jung-Inglessis (* 1920 in Berlin ; † August 6, 2007 in Rome ) was a German church historian , art historian and author.

Life

Eva-Maria Jung came from a Prussian Protestant family of officials. In 1939 she fled from the National Socialists to Rome , converted to the Roman Catholic faith and studied art and church history in Rome. She financed her studies by working in the archive of the building works at St. Peter's Basilica . Supported by the then head of the "Fabbrica", the former center politician and prelate Ludwig Kaas , a personal friend of Pope Pius XII. It had been allowed to visit the Papal Archives School and then in church history over the Evangelism ( Vittoria Colonna ; Reginald Pole to a theme of the Italian church history of the 16th century) PhD . She then taught at Georgetown University in Washington, DC

It was only when she met her future husband, the Greek church historian Emilios Inglessis, who headed a Catholic youth association in Rome, that she returned there. In 1959 they were personally received by Pope John XXIII. , whom her husband had served as an altar boy in Istanbul during his time as apostolic delegate and vicar for Greece and Turkey .

Eva-Maria Jung-Inglessis was a reporter for various newspapers during the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 in Rome. She later wrote for the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano and worked as a Rome guide, lecturer and non-fiction author.

She was buried in the Campo Santo Teutonico , the German cemetery in the Vatican.

Act

Jung-Inglessis published several Rome books, art history guides and works on church history. She became known with her illustrated books on "Roman Madonnas", "Roman Christ Images" and "Angels in Rome". For his book "The First Pope", which deals with the story of the discovery of St. Peter's grave in the 1940s, she spoke to the author Michael Hesemann . According to Hesemann, Jung-Inglessis wrote “probably the best guide to St. Peter's Basilica”. In 2006 the 87-page booklet “The German Popes” was published under her name by St. Benno Verlag , which brings together interesting facts about the “German Popes” since the Middle Ages.

In 2001 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

Fonts (selection)

  • Augustin Bea , cardinal of unity: biography a. Documentation , Paulus Verlag Recklinghausen 1962
  • The holy year in history. 1300-1975. , Bolzano 1974
  • Trip to Rome through two millennia , Bozen 1978/85
  • The St. Peter's Basilica in Rome , Langewiesche 1983 (2nd edition), ISBN 3784565808
  • Roman Madonnas: on the development of the images of Mary in Rome from the beginnings to the present , EOS St. Ottilien 1989, ISBN 3-88096-484-X
  • The Holy Year in Rome , Schnell & Steiner 1997, ISBN 3795411491
  • Maria , Eos 1999 (2nd edition), ISBN 3830669909
  • The Angels of Rome , EOS St. Ottilien 2000, ISBN 3830670362
  • In the footsteps of Luther in Rome , EOS St. Ottilien 2006, ISBN 3830672608
  • The German Popes. Her life, her work, her time , St. Benno 2006, ISBN 3746219892
  • Roman images of Christ , Christiana-Verlag 2007, ISBN 3717111388
  • My years in Campo Santo Teutonico (1943–1947) . In: Michael Matheus , Stefan Heid (Ed.): Places of Refuge and Personal Networks. The Campo Santo Teutonico and the Vatican 1933–1955 . Freiburg: Herder, 2015, pp. 189–196

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Eva-Maria Jung: Vittoria Colonna: between Reformation and Counter-Reformation. In: Review of Religion 15 (1950/51), pp. 144-159; This: On the Nature of Evangelism in Sixteenth-Century Italy. In: Journal of the History of Ideas 14 (1953), pp. 511-527.
  2. ↑ "Festival Academy Johannes XXIII. with Cardinal König "
  3. ↑ Michael Hesemann: A life in love for Rome. In: Kath.net , August 13, 2007, accessed October 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Jung-Inglessis, Eva-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Eva-Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2007
Place of death Rome