Johan Ickx
Johan Ickx (born 1962){{cite web | access-date = 19 February 2020 | url = http://www.cardinalvanrossum.eu/Ickxbiogr.htm | title = Johan Ickx | website = Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, van Rossum Biography Project | archive-date = 19 February 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200219181415/http://www.cardinalvanrossum.eu/Ickxbiogr.htm | url-status = dead }} is director of the historical archive of the Section for Relations with States of the Holy See's Secretariat of State. He has spent his career in several departments of the Roman Curia. He has published research on a wide variety of subjects related to the history of the Catholic Church from the Middle Ages to the 19th-20th centuries.
Johan Ickx studied religious sciences, theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and earned his doctorate in church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He worked as academic assistant at the journal Archivum Historiae Pontificiae, as an official of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and as archivist of the Tribunal of the
On 26 June 2008, while working at the Penitentiary, he was appointed to a five-year term as a consultor to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.{{cite press release | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2008/06/26/0430/01013.html | language = it | access-date = 19 February 2020 | date= 26 June 2008 | publisher = Holy See Press Office | title= Rinunce e Nomine, 26.06.2008}} His appointment was renewed on 19 December 2013.{{cite press release | language = it |url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/12/19/0854/01923.html | publisher = Holy See Press Office | access-date = 19 February 2020 | date= 19 December 2013 | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 19.12.2013}}
He is the author of a study of the Holy See's assessment of Germany's tactics in occupied Belgium during the First World War, La Guerre et le Vatican (2018). He argued that Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII who was then secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs played a key role in bringing the Vatican to discount German propaganda and recognize Germany was trying "to terrorize the population" of Belgium.{{cite news | work = La Croix | language = fr | title = "La Guerre et le Vatican" de Johan Ickx |url = https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Livres-et-idees/Guerre-Vatican-Johan-Ickx-2018-11-22-1200984708| first = Nicolas | last = Senèze | date= 22 November 2018 | access-date = 18 February 2020 | archive-date= 19 February 2020 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200219182030/https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Livres-et-idees/Guerre-Vatican-Johan-Ickx-2018-11-22-1200984708}}
In April 2018, he received the Romulus Prize (14de Romulusprijs) from the Rome Society of Leuven.Vereniging van en voor Romeliefhebbers (SPQB.be): [https://www.spqr.be/laureaat-romulusprijs-2018-johan-ickx/ Laureaat Romulusprijs 2018: Johan Ickx]
Selected writings
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- {{Cite book |title=Le Bureau. Les Juifs de Pie XII |language=fr|last=Ickx |first=Johan |location=Melsele|publisher=Éditions VdH |year=2020 |isbn=978-2-7499-3747-2}} Translated as {{Cite book |title=Pio XII e gli ebrei |language=it|last=Ickx |first=Johan |publisher=Rizzoli |year=2021 |isbn=978-88-17-14952-5 |location=Milano}}
- {{cite book | last= Ickx |first=Johan | title=Diplomazia segreta in Vaticano (1914-1915). Eugenio Pacelli e la resistenza alleata a Roma | language = it | location = Siena | publisher= Cantagalli | date= 2018}} Translated as {{cite book | last=Ickx |first=Johan |title= La guerre et le Vatican. Les secrets de la diplomatie du Saint-Siège (1914-1915) |language= fr| location = Paris | publisher = Éditions du Cerf | date= 2018}}
- {{cite book | last= Ickx |first= Johan | chapter= L’Ostpolitik di Pio XII. Il “modus vivendi” proposto a Mosca 1946-1947. Il caso di padre Alessandro Töhötöm Nagy S.J. | language =it | editor-first=Emilia |editor-last= Hrabovec |editor-first2=Giuliano |editor-last2=Brugnotto |editor-first3=Peter | editor-last3= Jurčaga |title= Chiesa del silenzio e diplomazia pontificia 1945-1965 / Umlčaná Cirkev a pápežská diplomacia 1945-1965 | location= Vatican City | publisher = Libreria Editrice Vaticana |date= 2018 | pages = 155–179}}
- {{cite book | last= Ickx |first=Johan | chapter= Nem, nem, soha! – Io non faccio della politica... La partenza del nunzio apostolico mons. Lorenzo Schioppa da Budapest | language = it | editor-first= Andreas |editor-last=Gottsmann |editor-first2=Pierantonio |editor-last2=Piatti |editor-first3=Andreas E. |editor-last3=Rehberg | title = Incorrupta monumenta Ecclesiam defendunt. Studi offerti a mons. Sergio Pagano, prefetto dell'Archivio Segreto Vaticano | location = Vatican City | publisher= Vatican Secret Archive |date= 2018|pages= 291–310}}
- {{cite book | last = Ickx | first= Johan | chapter= The Holy See and Refugees (1933-1945) | editor-first=Steven T. |editor-last=Katz |editor-first2=Juliane |editor-last2=Wetzel | title= Refugee Policies from 1933 until Today: Challenges and Responsibilities | location = Berlin |publisher= Metropol - International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance|date= 2018 |pages=63–95 }}
- {{cite book | last= Ickx |first= Johan | chapter=Campo Santo Teutonico und Santa Maria dell’Anima als Drehscheiben der Geheimdiplomatie im Umfeld der Papstwahl von 1903 | editor-first= Nicolaus U. |editor-last= Buhlmann | editor-first2=Peter |editor-last2=Styra |title= Signum in bonum. Festschrift für Wilhelm Imkamp zum 60. Geburtstag | location = Regensburg | publisher =Verlag Friedrich Pustet| date= 2011 | pages= 347–373}}
- {{cite book | last= Ickx |first= Johan | title= La Santa Sede tra Lamennais e san Tommaso d'Aquino. La condanna di Gerard Casimir Ubaghs e della dottrina dell'Università Cattolica di Lovanio (1834-1870) | language = it | location = Vatican City | publisher = Vatican Secret Archive | date= 2005}}
- {{cite book | first= Johan | last= Ickx | volume=I | chapter= n.a. | title= Religion under Siege: The Roman Catholic Church in Occupied Europe (1939-1950) | editor-first= Lieve | editor-last= Gevers | date= 2007 | editor-first2= Jan | editor-last2= Bank |location = Louvain | publisher = Peeters }}{{cite journal | access-date = 19 February 2020 | first = Annie| last= Lacroix-Riz |author-link=Annie Lacroix-Riz|url = https://www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_2009_num_87_2_7679_t9_0440_0000_3 | title = Review of Religion under Siege | page= 446 | journal = Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire |language=fr| date = 2009 | volume = 87| issue = 2}}
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- {{cite book | editor-first=Johan | editor-last=Ickx | editor-first2= Manlio|editor-last2= Sodi |title= La Penitenzieria apostolica e il sacramento della penitenza. Percorsi storici-giuridici-teologici e prospettive pastorali | date= 2009 | language = it | publisher = Libreria Editrice Vaticana }}{{cite web | url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/card-bertone/2009/documents/rc_seg-st_20091021_penitenzieria_it.html | access-date = 19 February 2020| language = it | date= 21 October 2009 | title= Presentazione del Volume "La Penitenzieria Apostolica e il Sacramento della Penitenza | publisher = Secretariat of State }}{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4FQfDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 | access-date = 19 February 2020 |page= 26| date= 2016| title = Entering a Clerical Career at the Roman Curia, 1458-1471 | publisher =Routledge | first1= Kirsi |last1= Salonen |first2=Jussi |last2=Hanska | isbn = 9781317142782 }}
References
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External links
- {{cite interview | url = https://www.vaticannews.va/fr/vatican/news/2019-02/anniversaire-signature-accords-latran-90-ans-vatican.html | title = Il y a 90 ans, la signature des Accords du Latran | language = fr | interviewer = Manuella Affejee |publisher= Vatican News| date = 11 February 2019}}
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