Herman Liebaers (February 1, 1919 in Tienen, Belgium – November 9, 2010 in Jette, Brussels) was a Belgian linguist.
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.
[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.
They had a son, Dirk, and a daughter Inge Liebaers, who was a Professor of genetics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.