Background
Kleist was born in the one of the villages which were later merged to form the town of Zabrze in the Kingdom of Prussia.
Kleist was born in the one of the villages which were later merged to form the town of Zabrze in the Kingdom of Prussia.
Student high sch; studied asceticism, 1891-1892. Graduate Jesuit Normal School, Limburg, Holland, 1894. Studied philosophy and general.
Student of University Berlin, 1926-1927.
Foreign a year he taught at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio. Then, for four years, he 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.
Kleist joined with Joseph Lilly, Certificated Master, to produce a more modern English translation of the Bible than the Douai Bible then in common usage among Catholics.
Under their editorship the work was laid to produce to the Kleist-Lilly translation, published posthumously in 1956. lieutenant never gained widespread acceptance, though, and was later totally supplanted by the translations produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, which culminated in the publication of the New American Bible in 1970.
Member Archeological Institute of America, Missouri Academy Science, American Philological Association, Linguistic Society America, Classical Association Middle West and South, Catholic Commision on Intellectual and Social Affairs, American Catholic Biblical Association, Classical Philology. Member commission on New Testament translation.