GEORGES HENRI SCHMIDT, French Diplomat, Official. Chief, Language Service, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, United Nations. First Prize, Latin Translation & Third Prize, Greek Translation, Lycées et Collèges de France, 31; Honorary Lieutenant Interprète de Reserve. Siam Society, Bangkok; Royal Bangkok Sports Club.
Education
Ecole des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1934-1937, Diploma Dipl Section(s). Faculty of Letters, University of Paris, 1934-1937, Licencié es Lettres. Faculty of Letters, University of Strasboug at Clermont-Ferrand, 1940-1943, Licencié es Lettres English, Slavonic & Oriental Language.
Ecole Nationale des Langues Orientales, Paris, 1945-1946, Diploma Arabic, Eastern Arabic, Persian, Turkish. Spoken languages: French, Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.
Career
Chief, Language Service, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, United Nations. Chief, Language Service, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, United Nations, 1972-1974. Chief, Terminology Section(s), United Nations, New York, 1965-1971.
Reviser, French Translation Section(s), New York, 1962-1965. Chief, Language Service, Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, 1960-1962. Chief, Language Service, Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia, 1959.
Chief, Language Service, United Nations Mission in Jordan, 1959. Translator-Interpreter, United Nations Observer Group in Lebanon, 1958. Reviser, French Translation Section(s), United Nations, New York, 1953-1958.
Reviser, Language Section(s), Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, Thailand, 1952-1953. Reviser-Translator, French Section(s), United Nations, New York, 1946-1952. Translator, French Radio Diffusion, 1945-1946.
Journalist, French Press Agency, 1945-1946, 1941-1943. Military Service, 1937-1940.
Membership
Siam Society, Bangkok. Royal Bangkok Sports Club.