Charles De Smedt
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Charles De Smedt (1831-1911) was a Belgian Jesuit hagiographer. He was a Bollandist, and is noted for having introduced critical historical methods into Catholic hagiography, so that it became a collection of accounts of the accretion of legends, as well as the compilation of original materials.[1]
He founded the Analecta Bollandiana in 1882 with G. van Hooff and Joseph de Backer[2].
[edit] Works
- Introductio generalis ad historiam ecclesiasticam critice tractandam (1876)
- L'Église et la science (1877), early reply to the conflict thesis
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1], in French.
- ^ Bollandists - LoveToKnow 1911
