Victor de Buck

Victor De Buck ( de "book"), (21 April 1817, Oudenaarde, Belgium – 23 May 1876, Brussels) was a Belgian Jesuit priest and theologian. He is credited with relaunching the work of the Bollandists in the XIXth century, after the restoration of the Society of Jesus.

His family was one of the most distinguished in the city of Oudenaarde (Audenarde). 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 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 Louvain 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.

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