Heinrich Pfeiffer (art historian)

Heinrich Wilhelm Pfeiffer SJ (born February 22, 1939 in Tübingen ) is a German Jesuit and art historian .

Life

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1963 and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 . After studying art history, classical archeology, Romance studies, philosophy and theology in Tübingen, London, Florence, Berlin, Munich, Rome and Basel, Heinrich Pfeiffer received his doctorate in 1970 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome as a Lic. Theol. and in 1973 at the University of Basel as Dr. phil. in art history . Since 1973/74 he has been Professor of Art History and Christian Iconography at the Faculty of Church History (Facoltà della Storia e dei Beni Culturali della Chiesa) of the Gregoriana.

Among other things, Pfeiffer has made a contribution to researching the history of the depiction of Christ and, in this context, has also dealt intensively with the Turin shroud , the Veronica image and the Manoppello veil .

He is an advisor to the Pontifical Commission on the Cultural Goods of the Church .

literature

• On the iconography of Raphael's Disputa . Egidio da Viterbo and the Christian-Platonic conception of the Stanza della Segnatura (= Miscellanea historiae pontificiae 37). Rome 1975 (also Basel, Diss. Phil. 1973).
• God's word in the picture. The image of Christ in art. Munich / Zurich / Vienna 1986.
• with Werner Bulst : The Turin Shroud and the Image of Christ. Vol. 1: The Shroud, Research Reports and Investigations. Frankfurt / Main 1987.
• with Werner Bulst: The Turin Shroud and the Image of Christ. Vol. 2: The shroud, the veil of Manoppello and their impact history in art. Frankfurt / Main 1991.
• The Roman Veronica . In: Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft (Resch, Innsbruck) 49/3 (2000), pp. 225–240.
• Il volto santo di Manoppello. Pescara 2000 (with further contributions by Blandina Paschalis Schlömer and Adriano Ghisetti Giavarina).
• The Sistine Chapel rediscovered. Belser, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7630-2488-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Pfeiffer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sandro Mattioli: From Hölderlin's room to the Vatican: Roman Michelangelo expert grew up in Tübingen. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . August 11, 2010 .