The Faithful Executioner

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner's trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation.Through examination of Frantz's exceptional and often overlooked record, Joel F. Harrington delves deep into a world of human cruelty, tragedy and injustice. At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate - even progressive? The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse; it is also a remarkable panorama of a Europe poised on the cusp of modernity, a world with startling parallels to our own.

About the author

Joel F. Harrington

Summary

At the same time, he poses a fascinating question: could a man who routinely practiced such cruelty also be insightful, compassionate – even progressive?The Faithful Executioner is the biography of an ordinary man struggling to overcome an unjust family curse;

Report

"Harrington schildert das Leben dieses außergewöhnlichen Mannes ohne Voyeurismus und Herablassung, vielmehr mit Einfühlungsvermögen und genauer Kenntnis des gesellschaftlichen Hintergrunds." Dpa

Product details

• Authors: Joel F. Harrington, Joel F Harrington, Joel F. Harrington
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2014
• EAN: 9780099572664
• ISBN: 978-0-09-957266-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book; 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment, Nuremburg