[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 149 (Thursday, October 30, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11495]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      IN MEMORIAM--DAVID H. KRAUS

  Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, David H. Kraus, assistant chief of 
the European Division of the Library of Congress, died on October 27 in 
Lanham, MD. In a career at the Library of Congress that spanned a 
quarter-century, Mr. Kraus played a pivotal role in developing the 
library's unparalleled European collections and in advising the 
Congress in a variety of ways, most recently in the training of 
parliamentarians and librarians from the newly independent, former 
Communist States of Europe.
  A native of Minnesota, Mr. Kraus received his undergraduate education 
at the University of Wisconsin and did graduate work at Harvard 
University. A consummate bibliographer and administrator, he was also a 
remarkable linguist who attained reading fluency in most of the major 
languages of Eastern and Western Europe. Mr. Kraus was nationally 
prominent in library circles and ably represented the Congress at 
scores of professional meetings.
  David Kraus was a wise and gentleman, possessed with a ready wit to 
go with his enormous erudition. He served the Congress long and 
faithfully, and he leaves many friends on Capitol Hill where he will be 
sorely missed.

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