Herman Liebaers
Herman Liebaers (February 1, 1919 in Tienen, Belgium – November 9, 2010 in Jette, Brussels) 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.
Education
He obtained a master's 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 spent 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 European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).[1]
In 1956 he returned to the Royal Library in Brussels, being appointed its director general,[1] and helped oversee the establishment of its new permanent secretariat in The Hague.[2] From 1969 until 1974, he was president of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), and subsequently honorary president.[1] He was an editor and biographer of the 19th-century poet Hélène Swarth.
From 1973 until 1981, he was Marshal of the Royal Household of king Baudouin I of Belgium.[1] He was the first Dutch speaking Fleming in this post. Other Flemings had preceded him but were French-speaking members of the old nobility.
In 1976 he was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership.[3]
Personal life
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.
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 7th. 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
References
- ^ a b c d Wijnstroom, Margreet (2 December 2010). "Dr. Herman Liebaers, 1919-2010". International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. ifla.org. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
- ^ Rayward, W. Boyd (1994). "Library associations, international," in Encyclopedia of Library History. Eds. Wayne A. Wiegand and Don G. Davis, Jr. New York: Garland Press. pp. 342-347.
- ^ "IFLA Honorary President, Has Been Awarded an Honorary Membership on the Occasion of the Centenary of American Library Association." 1976. IFLA Journal 2 (3): 173.
External links
- International Library Associations
- Herman Liebaers' obituary (in Dutch)
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- Isak Collijn (1927 to 1931)
- William Warner Bishop (1931 to 1936)
- Marcel Godet (1936 to 1947)
- Wilhelm Munthe (1947 to 1951)
- Pierre Bourgeois (librarian) (1951 to 1958)
- Gustav Hofmann (1958 to 1963)
- Sir Frank Francis (1963 to 1969)
- Herman Liebaers (1969 to 1974)
- Preben Kirkegaard (1974 to 1979)
- Else Granheim (1979 to 1985)
- Hans-Peter Geh (1985 to 1991)
- Robert Wedgeworth (1991 to 1997)
- Christine Deschamps (1997 to 2003)
- Kay Raseroka (2003 to 2005)
- Alex Byrne (2005 to 2007)
- Claudia Lux (2007 to 2009)
- Ellen Tise (2009 to 2011)
- Ingrid Parent (2011 to 2013)
- Sinikka Sipilä (2013 to 2015)
- Donna Scheeder (2015 to 2017)
- Gloria Pérez-Salmerón (2017 to 2019)
- Christine Mackenzie (2019 to 2021)
- Barbara Lison (2021 to 2023)
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