Romano Guardini
Romano Guardini Romano Guardini was born in Verona on 17 February 1885 and died in Munich on 1 October 1968. The son of Italian parents, he grew up in Mainz, Germany, and became a German citizen. He studied chemistry, economics and theology, was ordained a priest in 1910, and obtained his habilitation in 1922 with a work on Bonaventure’s doctrine of redemption. In 1923 he received in Berlin a chair of philosophy of religion and Catholic worldview, which he held until 1939, when the National Socialist regime removed him from teaching. After the war he taught at Tübingen (1945–1948) and, from 1948, at Munich, until 1962. He was also an important figure in the Catholic youth movement, especially at Burg Rothenfels, and in the German liturgical movement. ...