Original sentence: : La bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus et le Père Augustin de Backer, Louvain, 1876.Augustin de Backer (born July 18, 1809, Antwerp, Belgium - died December 1, 1873, Liège, Belgium) was a Belgian Jesuit and renowned bibliographer.Based in Liège he visited Belgian and foreign libraries and, with the help of his natural brother Alois de Backer (also, coincidentally, a Jesuit), started publishing, from 1853 on, his magnum opus: La bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus.Carlos Sommervogel (1834-1902)'s Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus remains the standard reference book for research into Jesuit writings till the end of the 19th century.De Backer left his country to be educated at the Jesuit schools of France (Beauregard, Saint-Acheul) and Switzerland Fribourg.The first edition was 7 volumes (printed from 1853 to 1861)
Edited sentence: : La bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus et le Père Augustin De Backer, Louvain, 1876.Augustin de Backer (July 18, 1809, Antwerp, Belgium - December 1, 1873, Liège, Belgium) was a Belgian Jesuit and renowned bibliographer.Based in Liège he visited Belgian and foreign libraries and, with the help of his brother Alois De Backer (also a Jesuit), started publishhing, from 1853 on, his magnum opus: La bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus.From the second edition on the name of a close collaborator appeared on the title page: Carlos Sommervogel (1834-1902).Sommervogel's Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus remains the standard reference book for research into Jesuit writings till the end of the 19th century.The French Jesuit will carry on the work of De Backer.The anti-catholic educational policy of William I, king of the Netherlands, forced De Backer to leave his country to get education at the Jesuit schools of France (Beauregard, Saint-Acheul) and Switzerland Fribourg.The first edition of 7 volumes (from 1853 to 1861) was well received by academic circles