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7 Int'l Ass'n L. Libr. Bull. 1 (1963)

handle is hein.journals/ialibbul7 and id is 1 raw text is: IS d al 16F.-U a LETM IAM RAW d LiOSi BULLEIL' EUNK M Editor: Professor Dr. B. LANDHEER Nqmber VII Xpr 1 963 A.C. BREYCH-A-VAUTHIER. A PROFIILE If you browse at any time in the, reading rooms of the United Nations Library in Geneva; j will certainly see him - 6 -trim figure with a lean, bionzed face. and the nose and short but carefree h&ir' of a sebia.s He will not be browsing, for he is man who moves with the'sp~ed of impatiense and the kafwledgo that'life is too shoa{ to accomplish all that, he wou3likeg Hugging books and'pamphlets and papers uinder his left arm, hi' long fring'ers snap through 6atalog-cards, his eyes range rapidly over wel6.p1?VVn shelves, his hand pounces'on the book. This is his element. He IQ Arthur Carl Breycha-Va4thier, Ch-ief Librariainin Genwa,.., Born some sixty years ago, he is dedo'nad from'a family which .gave many~prominent administrators to the'Old Austria; his grhndfather was a member of the AuQtrian Herrenhaus 'nd a famious professor ot Roman law. Law he ,has in the bloods hip duoation in Vienna and at uni- ersitiesin.~n.sbru~k, London and Belitim shaipened and systematized his knQwledge, He qualified in economics as well as in lavo Soon after the First World War he practiced law in Viehna, thek-,moved to the legal departent.of the Kiel Institute of World Economi'cs. It was here that he waswon for librarianship, for before longhe became Deputy to the Librarian of the Institute. In :928 he was invited to join the staff of 'the League of Nations asaLaw Librarian. For the next seventeen years his legal training and especially his wide and expanding knowledge of the literature were at the disposal of the negotiators of the League. He was editor of the Repertoire of Qaestions of General International Law before the Leawue 6f Nations, 1920-1940; he wrote Sources of Informa-- on: a Handbook on the Wbications of the League of Nations, which has appearea in English, French German Czech and Russian editions and remains the librarian's best friend as a guide through the forest of League publications. At about this time, too, he began to teach at the Geneva Library School, and lent his energy and ability to the International Federation of Library Associations. From 1930 on he has also edited the Aetes du Conseil International des Bibliothagues. After the Second World War, when the Library of the League was transferred to the United Nations, Breycha-Vauthier became its Librarian.

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