Félix Klein

This article is about the French priest. For the German mathematician, see Felix Klein.

Abbé Félix Klein (12 July 1862 in Château-Chinon (Ville) – December 1953 in Gargenville)^[1] was a French priest, theologian and author who taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris. In the United States, he is known as the author of the introduction of Comtesse de Ravilliax's French translation of Walter Elliott's Life of Father Hecker (1896), which started the Americanism controversy. Klein was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1952.^[2] Many of 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 Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, celebrations-de-bourgogne.org; accessed 5 July 2017.
2. Klein's file on-line, culture.gouv.fr; accessed 5 July 2017.
3. Félix Klein profile, nd.edu; accessed 5 July 2017.

Sources

• 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.