The very first librarian of the United Nations, Sigurd Rasmussen, a Dane by birth who later became a US citizen, has died at the age of 99.
From 1941 to 1946, he was a librarian for the League of Nations Mission at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, working with such luminaries as Albert Einstein.
Fluent in a dozen languages, he later formed what would become the Library of the United Nations and became the U.N.’s first librarian in 1946. Obituary from the Washington Post .
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