Carlos Sommervogel

Carlos Summer Bird ( born January 8, 1834 in Strasbourg, † May 4, 1902 in Paris) was a French Jesuit and bibliographer, who created a list of references with the Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus ( Library of the Society of Jesus ), the one of the essential foundations for the authors of the Catholic Encyclopedia was and still is considered a major work on Jesuit writings.

Life and work

After attending high school in Strasbourg was Carlos summer bird Jesuit novice in the Alsatian Issenheim. After completing his literary studies in Saint- Acheul at Amiens, he was sent in 1856 to the Collège de l' Immaculée Conception in the Rue de Vaugirard in Paris. There he began at the Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de écrivains of Jésus work that was published at the time by the Belgian Jesuit Augustin and Aloys de Backer. In 1865 he left Paris to study theology in Amiens, where he was ordained a priest in 1866.

According to different uses he could devote his bibliographic interests throughout 1882. In 1884 he published the Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymous et pseudonymes publiés par of religieux de la Compagnie de Jésus. In 1885 he was appointed successor to the de Backer in Leuven, Belgium. Until his death he was working on the extension of the work of de Backer. In 1890 he published the first volume of the Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, the last of the nine volumes appeared in 1900.

Besides this great work he vereöffentlichte a variety of books, journals and articles.

Works

• Tables méthodiques of mémoires de Trévoux ( 1701-1775 ). (3 volumes ), Paris 1864-65.
• Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus. (9 volumes), Brussels / Paris from 1890 to 1900.