Augustin de Backer
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Augustin de Backer (July 18, 1809–December 1, 1873) was a Roman Catholic bibliographer.
He was educated at the Jesuit Colleges of Saint-Nicholas, Beauregard, Saint-Acheul, and Fribourg. In 1835, he was received into the Society of Jesus by the General, Father Roothaan, who sent him to Nivelles, in Belgium, for his novitiate. He taught three years in the College of Namur, and in 1840, began his studies for the priesthood in Leuven.
While at Leuven, he came across the incomplete Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu published in 1676 by Nathaniel Bacon, and he resolved to undertake the work that will ever remain the monument of his laborious life, Le bibliothèque des écrivains de la compagnie de Jésus.
He died December 1, 1873 in Liège.
