Over the course of four decades, Edmund Schlink became one of the most famous and influential Lutheran theologians in the world and a key participant in the modern Ecumenical Movement.
In 1946, he became a professor of dogmatic and ecumenical theology at Heidelberg University, where he would serve until his retirement in 1971. (Edmund Schlink's first wife had died in 1936.) Bernhard's father had been a seminary professor and pastor in the anti-Nazi Confessing Church.
His mother, Irmgard, had been a theology student of his father, whom she married in 1938. He was born in Großdornberg, near Bielefeld, to a German father ( Edmund Schlink) and a Swiss mother, the youngest of four children. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. Bernhard Schlink ( German: ( listen) born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist.
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