Pablo Clain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pablo Clain

Czech Christian missionary

Date of Birth: 25-Jan-1652

Place of Birth: Cheb, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 30-Aug-1717

Profession: missionary, botanist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Paul Klein (25 January 1652 in Cheb, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic – 30 August 1717 in Manila, Philippines; often used in Spanish: Pablo Clain, Latin: Paulus Klein, Czech: Pavel Klein) was a Jesuit missionary, pharmacist, botanist, author of an astronomic observation, writer, rector of Colegio de Cavite as well as the rector of Colegio de San José and later Jesuit Provincial Superior in the Philippines, the highest ranking Jesuit official in the country.
Klein is known as an important personality of life during the 18th-century Manila.Klein is known for writing a standardized Tagalog dictionary as well as the first person to describe Palau for the Europeans and to draw the historically first map of Palau, an act which practically equated to the discovery of Palau.
He is also known to write the first astronomic observation from Manila of a moon eclipse and an overview of medicinal plants in local as well as European languages as well as recipes for their usage.