James Kleist
Encyclopedia
James Aloysius Kleist S.J. (Hindenburg
, 1873 -1949) was a German-born American Jesuit scholar of Koine Greek
and patristic literature.
He attended school in Gleiwitz, then Beuthen, and in 1892 entered the Society of Jesus at Blyenbeck, then emigrated to America. For a year he taught at Saint Ignatius High School, Cleveland, and for four years lectured to the young Jesuits of the Buffalo Mission of the German Province. Missouri. In 1902 Kleist came to Saint Louis, where he worked on revising Kaegi's 1884 Greek primer.
Posthumous
Hindenburg
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, 1873 -1949) was a German-born American Jesuit scholar of Koine Greek
Koine Greek
Koine Greek is the universal dialect of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity , developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture of elements especially from Ionic....
and patristic literature.
He attended school in Gleiwitz, then Beuthen, and in 1892 entered the Society of Jesus at Blyenbeck, then emigrated to America. For a year he taught at Saint Ignatius High School, Cleveland, and for four years lectured to the young Jesuits of the Buffalo Mission of the German Province. Missouri. In 1902 Kleist came to Saint Louis, where he worked on revising Kaegi's 1884 Greek primer.
Works
- A short grammar of classical Greek (1902). Author: Adolf Kaegi 1884, revised James Aloysius Kleist St. Louis, Mo., B. Herder 1902
- The epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch 1946
- Classical essays presented to James A. Kleist, S.J. 1946
Posthumous
- J. A. Kleist and J. L. Lilly, The New Testament (Milwaukee, 1956)
- Kleist, JA Psychiatry and Catholicism. VanderVeldt,