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Biography of Romano Guardini

Romano Guardini was a German philosopher and Catholic theologian of Italian descent.

Born in Verona, Italy in 1885, his family relocated to Mainz, Germany in 1886. Guardini initially studied chemistry and economics before ultimately choosing theology as his field of study.

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He pursued his theological education at the University of Freiburg.

In 1910, Guardini was ordained as a priest and went on to defend his master's thesis on the theology of Bonaventure in 1915. He became a prominent leader in the Catholic youth movement and an influential figure in the religious and social sphere of his time.

Guardini held the position of Privatdozent (lecturer) in Bonn from 1921 and became an ordinary professor of the philosophy of religion in Berlin in 1923.

Unfortunately, Guardini's career was interrupted by the Nazi regime in 1