DOCTORATE AWARD TO P. GABRIEL VON WENDT, LC

Congratulations to Fr. Gabriel von Wendt, LC, who received the doctoral award of the Görres Society (German Association of Catholic Academics – Section Pedagogy) in Regensburg in cooperation with the Alfred Petzelt Foundation for his thesis ‘Melodie des Werdens’ (Brill-Schoeningh 2024) on polar dynamics in Romano Guardini as a model of human development processes.

In her Laudatio, Prof. Dr.Dr. Hanna-Barbara Gerl-Falkovitz emphasised the achievement of having elaborated a central methodological structure in Guardini’s work and of having grasped the difficult concept of ‘becoming’ well and accurately. ‘In earlier interpretations, Guardini has been characterised as a ‘spatial thinker’ (E. Biser). While Gabriel von Wendt highlighted the strong reference to time in Guardini’s ontology and anthropology. This is a novelty and opens up a hitherto little considered research perspective’.