Félix Klein

Abbé Félix Klein (12. July 1862 Château-Chinon – December 1953 Gargenville)^[1] was a French priest, theologian and author, who taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris. In the US, he is known as the author of the introduction of Comptesse de Ravilliax's French translation of Walter Elliott's Life of Father Hecker (1896), which started the Americanism controversy. Klein was made Chevalier of Legion of Honour in 1952.^[2] Many of Abbé Klein's personal papers are kept in the University of Notre Dame Archives.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Celebrations-de-bourgogne.org: 1862 : Naissance de Félix Klein, ecclésiastique et écrivain
2. ↑ Klein's file on-line
3. ↑ Félix Klein at UNDA

Literature

• Guy Thuillier, "Un Nivernais professeur à l’Institut catholique : l’abbé Félix Klein (1862-1953)", Mémoires de la Société académique du Nivernais, t. 73, 1993, p. 65- 75.