Karlheinz deschner biography for kids

Karl Heinrich Leopold Deschner 23 May — 8 April was a German researcher and writer who achieved public attention in Europe for his trenchant and fiercely critical treatment of Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular, as expressed in several articles and books, culminating in his 10 volume Christianity's Criminal History Kriminalgeschichte des Christentums , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek.

Deschner's father Karl was a forester in Bamberg , Bavaria. Both of them were Roman Catholics , but the mother converted from Protestantism at some point. Afterwards he attended the Franciscan Seminary in Dettelbach. There he first lived with the family of his godfather and sponsor, the clerical councilor Leopold Baumann, afterward in the Franciscan monastery.

From to he attended the Alte, Neue and Deutsche Gymnasium as a boarding school student with the Carmelite and English Sisters. In he passed his final exams.

Karlheinz deschner biography for kids: Karl Heinrich Leopold Deschner (–

Like the rest of his entire class he reported immediately as a military volunteer for Nazi Germany and was wounded several times. He served as a soldier until the Third Reich's capitulation, in the final stages as a paratrooper. In the same year he married Elfi Tuch. From to , Deschner resided in a former hunting lodge of the prince-bishops of Tretzendorf Steigerwald , then for two years in the country house of a friend in Fischbrunn near Hersbruck, Franconian Jura.