Abbé Félix Klein (12. July 1862 Château-Chinon (Ville) – December 1953

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) was a French priest, theologian and author who taught at the

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. In the

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, 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

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in 1952. Many of Klein's personal papers are kept in the

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*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. 19th-century French Roman Catholic priests 20th-century French Catholic theologians Catholic Church in the United States Recipients of the Legion of Honour 1862 births 1953 deaths French male writers {{France-RC-clergy-stub