Professor Jutta Burggraf came to Pamplona for the second time in 1996 to join the Dogmatic Theology department of the School of Theology. Twelve years earlier she had defended her doctoral thesis at the same School the University of Navarra, for which she received the extraordinary award of doctorate (1984). Previously, Professor Burggraf had obtained her doctorate in Psycho-pedagogy at the University of Cologne (1979).

Since joining the faculty the School of Theology, Jutta Burggraf has performed various tasks in an exemplary spirit of service. Her acceptance of the various teaching, organizational and research tasks required of her was a characteristic trait. Jutta could always be counted on for any endeavor at the School. At the same time, she took the time to respond to the various academic invitations that came to her from many Spanish and foreign centers.

As director of the department, Jutta would inform me of the requests she received to give lectures and participate in forums of various kinds, and I can assure you that there were dozens of them coming from Europe and various countries in America. I tried to respond to as many as I could, although sometimes it was materially impossible to accept some of them. However, he did everything in his power to collaborate with the requests that came from Rome - especially from the Holy See - and I can assure you that there were dozens of them.
-especially from the Holy See, which, through various organizations, asked for his contribution, and from his homeland, Germany. Perhaps the most notorious partnership with the Holy See was that of expert, appointed by John Paul II, of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on "The vocation and mission statement of the laity in the Church and in the world", in 1987.

She was a prolific author, as shown by her more than twenty books -some of them with several editions, and translated into several languages- and her abundant collaborations and research articles. All these works earned her an academic A But it all paled in the face of the attention staff. Professor Burggraf conveyed a closeness and understanding that was immediately perceived by her interlocutors. I still remember the comment of the director a Higher Center of Theology in which Jutta had just given a lecture with the warm Spanish, tinged with her characteristic German accent: "If you don't need her in Pamplona, tell me, because we will keep her as a professor here". But we did need her in Pamplona, and now we need her in another way: as our intercessor before the Father of life and source true lived freedom.