Florentine Bechtel
The Reverend Florentine Stanislaus Bechtel, S.J., was a French-born American Biblical scholar.
Bechtel was educated at the College of Providence in Amiens. He entered the Jesuits in 1874 in his native France and was sent to serve the Jesuit missions in the Midwestern United States and studied theology at the former Jesuit St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri. He taught Hebrew and Sacred Scripture at St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, and was a contributor to the Catholic Encyclopedia articles, including: Pillar of Cloud; Plagues of Egypt, Machabees, etc.
