Herman Liebaers

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Herman Liebaers (b. Tienen, 1919) is a Belgian linguist. He was the first Fleming to become Marshal of the Royal Household of the Royal Court of Belgium.

He was married to the late Isa Hereng, and their daughter Inge Liebaers is a Professor of genetics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Bibliography
4 Source

[edit] Education

He obtained a Master degree in literature from Ghent University

[edit] Career

In 1943 he started working at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels (Albertina), where he would become Director in 1956. During the war he was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in the concentration camps of Breendonk and Huy. From 1951 until 1956, he was Assistant Secretary of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. From 1969 until 1974 he was president of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and currently honorary president. From 1973 until 1981, he was Marshal of the Royal Household of king Baudouin I of Belgium. Herman Liebaers was the first Fleming to become Marshal of the Royal Household.

[edit] Bibliography

Hélène Swarths Zuidnederlandse jaren, Ghent, 1964.
Hélène Swarth. Brieven aan Pol de Mont, Ghent, 1964
Liebaers on Libraries and the 37th Session of IFLA in Liverpool, Wilson Library Bulletin, 45, 10, 950-951, June 1971
Book promotion through libraries, New Delhi: Federation of Publishers and Booksellers Associations in India, 1973
The impact of American and European librarianship upon each other, Chicago, 1977
Small Talk about Great Books, Delivered on the Occasion of the 7^th. Annual Bromsen Lecture, Boston, Mass., May 12, 1979.
Mostly in the line of duty: thirty years with books, The Hague, Boston, London, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1980
Rond de Brusselse Warande, Brussels, 1988
Autour Du Parc De Bruxelles, Brussels, 1988
Books over bombs, IFLA in Moscow, August 1991
Koning Boudewijn in spiegelbeeld, Van Halewyck, 1998
Beyond Belgium, Van Halewyck, 2003