Background
Deubner was born into a family of Catholic priests of the Byzantine rite, Ivan Deubner, his father having converted to Catholicism in 1903.
Deubner was born into a family of Catholic priests of the Byzantine rite, Ivan Deubner, his father having converted to Catholicism in 1903.
In 1932 he left the ministry for "not very honourable" reasons and went to Berlin where he was denounced as a Soviet spy, but in 1933 he returned to Rome, and shortly went to Paris. From 1935 he was living in Prague and in 1943 he was arrested by the Nazi regime and taken to Berlin, where he worked as a translator at the beginning of 1945, returning to Prague on July 12, 1945 where he was arrested and taken to the Soviet Union. He was held in Butyrka prison in Moscow and was sentenced to 10 years but he died in the Gulag on 5 May 1946.