Anna Maria Brunner from Ainau in Bavaria worked as a dental assistant in Munich. In 1986, she moved to Rome for the first time for a longer period. In 1988, she finally broke camp in Germany and found employment in the Eternal City at the "most beautiful square" in the world", the Piazza Navona, in the German dental practice of Prof. Zappe (until 2007).
Dr. Fernando López Arias (*1982 in Málaga, Spain) studied Liturgical Theology and Architecture in Madrid, Rome and Pamplona. Since 2020, he has been a professor at the Institute of Liturgy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He is also a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His areas of interest include the Sacrament of Penance, celebrative space and the Liturgical Reform of Vatican II. He recently published El Concilio Vaticano II y la arquitectura sagrada, a study on the reform of contemporary sacred architecture in the light of archival sources.
The Roman Institute of the Görres Society will be awarding the Martin Chemnitz Scholarship, newly established on the basis of a private foundation, in the next few years. The doctoral scholarship is intended for historical-dogmatic studies on the reception of the Council of Trent in contemporary Lutheranism.