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Victor de Buck ( de "book"),〔(Russell SJ, Matthew. "Victor de Buck, Bollandist", ''The Irish Monthly'', M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin, 1877 )〕 (21 April 1817, Oudenaarde, Flanders – 23 May 1876)〔 was a Jesuit theologian and Bollandist hagiographer. ==Life== His family was one of the most distinguished in the city of Oudenaarde. After a course in the humanities, begun at the College of Soignies and the petit seminaire of Roeselare and completed in 1835 at the college of the Society of Jesus at Aalst, he entered the Society of Jesus on 11 October 1835. After two years in the novitiate, then at Nivelles, and a year at Tronchiennes reviewing and finishing his literary studies, he went to Namur in September 1838 to study philosophy and the natural sciences.〔(De Smedt, Charles. "Victor de Buck." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. 11 Dec. 2014 )〕 De Buck wrote with ease in Flemish, French, and Latin.〔 The work of the Bollandists had just been revived and, in spite of his youth, Victor de Buck was summoned to act as assistant to the hagiographers. He remained at this work in Brussels from September 1840, to September 1845. After devoting four years to theological studies at Leuven where he was ordained priest in 1848, and making his third year of probation in the Society of Jesus, he was permanently assigned to the Bollandist work in 1850. He remained engaged in it until his death, living in a room at St. Michael's College, Brussels, which also served as his study.〔 He had already published in Vol. VII of the October ''Acta Sanctorum'', which appeared in 1845, sixteen commentaries or notices that are easily distinguishable because they are without a signature, unlike those written by the Bollandists.〔 In the early years, he would periodically take a brief respite to preach a country mission in Flemish. He composed in collaboration with scholastic Antoine Tinnebroeck an able refutation of a book published by the professor of canon law at the University of Leuven, in which the rights of the regular clergy were assailed and repudiated. This refutation, which fills an octavo volume of 640 pages, was ready for publication within four months. It was to have been supplemented by a second volume that was almost completed but could not be published because of the political disturbances of the year, the prelude to the revolutions of 1848. The work was never resumed.〔 Besides the numerous commentaries in Vols. IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII of the October ''Acta Sanctorum'', which won much praise, Father de Buck published in Latin, French and Dutch a large number of little works of piety and dissertations on devotion to the saints, church history, and Christian archaeology. The partial enumeration of these works fills two folio columns of his eulogy, in the forepart of vol. II of the November ''Acta''. Because of his extensive learning and investigating turn of mind he was naturally bent upon probing abstruse and perplexing questions. Thus in 1862 he was led to publish in the form of a letter to his brother Remi, then professor of church history at the theological college of Leuven and soon afterwards his colleague on the Bollandist work, a Latin dissertation, ''De solemnitate praecipue paupertatis religiosae''. This was followed in 1863 and 1864 by two treatises in French, one under the title ''Solution amiable de la question des couvents'' and the other ''De l'état religieux'', treating of the religious life in Belgium in the nineteenth century. De Buck was part of an international scholarly community, researching, studying, and sharing citations with colleagues. He maintained a frequent correspondence with Agostino Morini, O.S.M. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Victor de Buck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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