Charles De Smedt
Charles De Smedt (6 April 1833, Ghent, Belgium – 4 March 1911, Brussels) was a Belgian Jesuit priest and 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 is best known for his contribution to hagiography but also to history and metaphysics. His contribution to the development of a critical approach to History is epitomized in his masterpiece: Principes de la critique historique.
He revived the Bollandist Society and founded it scholarly journal, the Analecta Bollandiana in 1882 with G. van Hooff and Joseph de Backer.[2]
Works
- Introductio generalis ad historiam ecclesiasticam critice tractandam (1876)
- L'Église et la science (1877), early reply to the conflict thesis
- Principes de la critique historique, Bruxelles, 1883.
Notes
- ↑ , in French.
- ↑ Bollandists - LoveToKnow 1911 Archived 11 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
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