Herman Liebaers

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Herman Liebaers (Tienen, Belgium, February 1, 1919 - Jette, Brussels November 9, 2010) was a Belgian linguist. He was director general of the central Belgian Royal Library and Marshal of the Royal Household of the Royal Court of Belgium. He was married to Isa Hereng. They had a son, Dirk, and a daughter Inge Liebaers, who was a Professor of genetics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Education

He obtained a Master degree in literature from Ghent University in 1942 and a Ph. D. in 1955 at the same university.

Career

In 1943 he started working at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels (Albertina). During the war he was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned in the concentration camps of Breendonk and Huy. In 1950 he was for 6 months in the U. S. with a Fulbright scholarship and worked a few weeks at the Library of Congress. From 1951 until 1956 he was also Assistant Secretary of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. In 1954 he moved on to become the librarian of the CERN.

In 1956 he returned to the Royal Library in Brussels, being appointed its director general, during the years in which new premises built. 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. He was the first Dutch speaking Fleming in this post. Other Flemings had preceded him but where French-speaking members of the old nobility.

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

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