Episode 2 of 3
Sickel's Research Results
- When
- April 1883
- Where
- Vatican
German historian Theodor von Sickel published results in April 1883 defending the Church against forgery charges, persuading Pope Leo.
When the German Protestant historian Theodor von Sickel published the results of his research in the archive in April 1883, which defended the Church against charges of forgery, Pope Leo was further persuaded to support scholarly access.
Sources
- Vatican Apostolic Archive Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-20
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.