The ''Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum'', or simply ''Collegium Germanicum'', is a German-speaking

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for

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, founded in 1552. Since 1580 its full name has been ''Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urb''e. It is located on the Via di San Nicola da Tolentino.

History

It was apparent to the Roman Curia that the advance of the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire would not be addressed by a reform of the clergy in the empire itself. The ''Collegium Germanicum'' was established on 31 August 1552 by

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with the

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''Dum sollicita''. The initiative towards its foundation was taken by Cardinal

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and

Ignatius Loyola Ignatius of Loyola, S.J. (born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; eu, Ignazio Loiolakoa; es, Ignacio de Loyola; la, Ignatius de Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Catholic priest and theologian, ...

approved of the idea and promised his aid, but for a long time the college had to struggle against financial difficulties. Ignatius formally opened it on 28 October and the direction of the college was given to the order he founded 12 years earlier - the

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("Jesuits"). After the ''

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'', this is the oldest college in Rome. It opened in October 1552. The administration was confided to a committee of six Cardinal Protectors, who decided that the collegians should wear a red

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, in consequence of which they have since been popularly known as the "boiled shrimps".Baglioni, Pina. "THE GERMAN-HUNGARIAN COLLEGE", ''30Giorni'', January 2, 2009
/ref> During the first year the higher courses were given in the college itself; but in the autumn of 1553 St. Ignatius succeeded in establishing the schools of

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and

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in the ''Collegio Romano'' of his Society. He also drew up the first rules for the college, which served as models for similar institutions. During the pontificate of

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the financial conditions became such that the students had to be distributed among the various colleges of the Society in Italy. To place the institution on a firmer basis it was decided to admit paying boarders regardless their nationality, and without the obligation of embracing the ecclesiastical state; German clerics to the number of 20 or more were received free and formed a separate body. In a short time 200 boarding students, all belonging to the flower of European nobility, were received.

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placed 20 of his nephews in the college.

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, however, may be considered the real founder of the college. He transferred the secular department to the ''

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'', and in 1573 endowed the college with the Abbey of '' S. Saba all' Aventino'' and all its possessions, both on the ''

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'' and on

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; moreover he incorporated with it the Abbeys of '' Fonte Avellana in the Marches'', ''S. Cristina'', and Lodiveccio in

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. This allowed the practice of free education to be maintained. The new rector P. Lauretano, drew up another set of regulations. The college had already changed its location five times. In 1574

assigned it the ''Palazzi di S. Apollinare'' (the current seats of the

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and the

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), and in 1575 gave it charge of the services in the adjoining church. The splendour and majesty of the functions as well as the music executed by the students under the Spaniard

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, and his successor

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and other celebrated masters (

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, Ottavio Pittoni, and others) constantly drew large crowds to the church. Too much attention indeed was given to music under P. Lauretano, so that regulations had to be made at various times to prevent the academic work of the students from suffering. The courses were still given in the Collegio Roman; but when Bellarmine terminated his lectures on controversy, a chair for this important branch of learning was established in the Collegio Germanico and somewhat later a chair of canon law. As a special mark of his favour, Gregory XIII ordered that each year on the

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a student of the college should deliver a panegyric in presence of the pope. Meanwhile, in 1578 the ''Collegio Ungherese'' had been founded through the efforts of another Jesuit, Stephan Szántó, who obtained for it the church and convent of S. Stefano Rotondo on the Caelian Hill, and of '' S. Stefanino'' behind

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, the former belonging to the Hungarian Pauline monks, and the latter to the Hungarian pilgrims'

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. In 1580

merged it with the Collegium Hungaricum (''"Hungarian College"''), founded in 1578, since when it has been called the Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum de Urbe, or the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum for short. The students generally numbered about 100, sometimes, however, there were but 54, at other times as many as 150. During the seventeenth century several changes occurred, in particular the new form of oath exacted from all the students of foreign colleges. Mention must be made of the work of P. Galeno, the business manager who succeeded in consolidating the finances of the college so as to raise the revenue to 25,000

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per annum. A country residence was acquired at

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. In the eighteenth century the college became gradually more aristocratic.

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performed the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new church of S. Apollinare in 1742, on the completion of which a new Palace of S. Apollinare was erected. At the suppression of the Society (1773) the direction was entrusted to secular priests; lectures were delivered in the college itself, and the professors were Dominicans. Discipline and studies declined rapidly. Moreover,

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sequestrated the property situated in Lombardy and forbade his subjects to attend the college. The buildings, however, were increased by the addition of the palace opposite to

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. After

in 1781 forbade all students of his realm to study in Rome, and the city was shortly afterwards occupied by French troops, the college was obliged to close in 1798. It was reopened under

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in 1818, and reorganised by

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, who strengthened its connection to the Jesuits and gave it the form which it still has today. On the proclamation of the

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the property of the foreign national colleges was declared

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ed to the Government and was sold for an absurdly small sum. On that occasion the library and the precious archives of sacred music were scattered. Pius VII restored whatever remained unsold and ordered the rest to be repurchased as far as possible. In the first years the revenues were employed to pay off the debts contracted in this repurchase. In 1824 the palace of S. Apollinare as well as the villa at Parioli was reunited to the

. The first students were received in 1818 and lived in the

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of the Jesuits at the Gesu, and there the college remained till 1851. From that time the administration was entrusted to the general of the Jesuits, who appointed the rector and other fathers in charge of the college. In 1845 the estate of S. Pastore near

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was acquired. In 1851 the residence was transferred to the Palazzo Borromeo in the ''Via del Seminario'' where it remained till 1886. In 1873 when the ''Collegio Romano'' was taken away from the Jesuits, the ''Collegio Germanico'' found a home in the Gregorian University. In 1886 owing to the necessity of having more extensive quarters, the ''Collegio Germanico'' was transferred to the Hotel Costanzi in the ''Via S. Nicola da Tolentino''. During

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the members of the college had to move to share the premises of the '' Collegium Canisianum'' in

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from 1915 to 1919.

Present day

The Hotel Costanzi was torn down in 1939 to make way for road construction. The present college was built in 1944. The leadership of the Germanicum and Hungaricum collegiums is entrusted to the Jesuit order, with the rector and three other priests belonging to the Jesuit community. Two Croatian nuns are also part of the household.Pontificium Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum
/ref> The college receives students from Scandinavia, from the old German Empire and from the old Hungarian kingdom; places are free, but there are some students who pay. They study at the

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(for bachelors’ degrees) and at various pontifical universities in Rome for their licentiate and doctorate. The “official” language of the College is German and all of them study Italian, to be able to follow the courses conducted in Italian. After receiving their bachelor’s degree, they return to their diocese for to a "pastoral year". It is customary for college community to make the pilgrimage to the Seven Churches on a Sunday in Lent.

Teaching

At its foundation the defence against the

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, improvement of theological training and the education of priests loyal to Rome were the principal aims. "From the territories, endangered in faith, of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation" were to be trained "fearless warriors for the faith" (quotations from the founding bull). After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 it was possible to restore the original internationalism of the college.

Saints and Blesseds

The college commemorates some saints and blessed who have a special relationship with the college or were alumni. *

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, missionary *

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, bishop and martyr *

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, cardinal *

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Known students

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, Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg *

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* Alexander Frison *

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* Gerhard Gruber *

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* Hugo Hurter *

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, bishop of Eger *

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, later

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* József Koller, canon in

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* St.

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, cardinal *

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, important Austrian resistance fighter against National Socialism * Johann Maier, executed by Nazis * Johann Michael Raich *

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, Martyred by

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and

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. * Franz-Josef Overbeck, bishop of Essen, Germany *

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, cardinal *

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, Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith *

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, Spanish composer

References

Sources

* Dachsberger, Johann and Leiber, Robert, 1934. ''Kollegien'' in ''Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche'', 1st edition. vol. 6. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder. * Schmidt, Peter, 1984. ''Das Collegium Germanicum in Rom und die Germaniker. Zur Funktion e. röm. Ausländerseminars (1552 - 1914)''. Tübingen: Niemeyer. * Leitgöb, Martin, 2004. ''Vom Seelenhirten zum Wegführer. Sondierungen zum bischöflichen Selbstverständnis im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Die Germanikerbischöfe 1837-1962''. Rome: Herder. * Maurizio Tani: ''La rinascita culturale del '700 ungherese: le arti figurative nella grande committenza ecclesiastica'', Gregorian University Press / Biblical BookShop, Rom 2005, *

External links

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Official website
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Brief description at www.kath.de
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Peter Walter: Die Gründungen des Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum: Etappen der Kollegsgeschichte
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History

Present day

Teaching

Saints and Blesseds

Known students

See also

References

Sources

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