Giacomo Martina

Giacomo Martina SJ (12 December 1924 – 6 February 2012) was an Italian presbyter, lecturer and historian, expert in the History of Christianity.

Biography

Member of the Society of Jesus since the end of 1939, as a historian of the Church he taught for over thirty years in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has dedicated his work as a researcher to the figure of Pope Pius IX, but also to the events of the Society of Jesus in Italy. Among his most successful works, the History of the Church from Luther to the present day, structured in four volumes in which he deals with the time of the Reformation, absolutism, liberalism and finally the contemporary age until the events following the Second Vatican Council.

Works

• Il liberalismo cattolico ed il Sillabo (1959)
• Pio IX e Leopoldo II (1966)
• Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni (1970; 4 volumes)
• Pio IX (1846-1850) (1974)
• Pio IX (1851-1866) (1986)
• Pio IX (1867-1878) (1990)
• Chiesa in Italia tra fede e storia (1975; with Eliseo Ruffini)
• Pio X. Chiesa e mondo moderno (1976)
• La Chiesa in Italia negli ultimi trent'anni (1977)
• Lezioni di storia della chiesa. La Chiesa nell'età dell'assolutismo, del liberalismo, del totalitarismo (1983; 4 volumes)
• Il problema ebraico nella storia della chiesa (1996)
• Il cammino dell'evangelizzazione: problemi storiografici (2001; with Ugo Dovere)
• Storia della Compagnia di Gesù in Italia (1814-1983) (2003)

External links

• Martina, Giacomo