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Hans Möller Fonds
Fonds
1.3 m of textual records
32 photographs
1 audio cassette
Hans Möller was born on November 10, 1918, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He was a librarian and lecturer. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen (Ph.D. in Danish Language and Literature, 1945) and became Research Librarian at the Copenhagen Royal Library. During World War II, he participated in the dramatic rescue of Danish Jews by smuggling them to Sweden. In 1955, he came to Canada to pursue his passion for film, working as an Executive Director at the National Film Board (1956-1969) and as Vice-president of the Visual Education Centre in Toronto (1969-1974). In 1974, he became Chief Librarian at Ottawa University Library. From 1977 onwards, he worked as a Librarian, Professor of Scandinavian Literature, the head of McGill's School of Information Studies (1981-1984) and the acting Director of McGill University Libraries (1984-1986) in Montreal. He served as President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (1976-1978). He also enjoyed teaching Danish and editing scholarly books in the Fontanus series, which he founded. For many years, Dr. Möller served as President of the Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation, dedicating himself to raising funds to help young people in Canada travel to the Nordic countries for study or research.
He died on September 7, 2015, in Montreal, Quebec, and he bequeathed his body to science at McGill University.
The records were kept and maintained by the creator in his office at McGill University and at home until they were donated by Dr. Möller to the McGill University Archives.
The fonds consists of documents, photographs and audio media relevant to the professional history of Dr. Hans Möller. The scope predominately covers the period of 1980 to 1997 and includes Dr. Möller’s published works, personal and professional correspondence, research articles, and documents related to his professional activities and associations within and outside McGill University.
Deposited by Hans Moller, 16 August 2013
The fonds had a natural arrangement which was preserved. Some files had no formal title, and a title was imposed by the archivist based on the content of the file.
Some material in other languages.
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No further accruals are expected.
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Jean-Marc Tremblay 21/09/2018