Education
He obtained a master"s degree in literature from in 1942 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1955 at the same university.
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Herman Liebaers
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Career
He was director general of the central Belgian Royal Library and Marshal of the Royal Household of the Royal Court of Belgium. 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 United States 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 al Foundation. In 1954 he moved on to become the librarian of the European Organization of Nuclear Research. 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 ( International Federation of Library Associations), and currently honorary president He was an editor and biographer of the 19th-century poet 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.
Membership
Other Flemings had preceded him but where French-speaking members of the old nobility.
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November 9, 2010 (aged 91)