Brother david steindl rast biography template
Brother david steindl rast biography template
David steindl-rast...
David Steindl-Rast
American Catholic monk (born 1926)
Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., (born July 12, 1926) is an American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer.
He is committed to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality and science.
Life and career
Steindl-Rast was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, with a traditional Catholic upbringing that instilled in him a trust in life and an experience of mystery.
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His family and surname derive from their aristocratic seat near the pilgrimage site of Maria Rast, today Ruše in Slovenia.[1] Privations he experienced in youth during the Second World War were magnified by the tensions of him being one-fourth Jewish.
He was recruited into the German army but did not see combat.[2] He received his MA degree from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Vienna (1952).
He emigrated with his family to the United States