Trained as a lawyer, Bodart entered government service. By 1894, he was an assistant commissioner in the Imperial and Royal Central Commission. He published, in that year,
Erziehung (en:
Upbringing), with
Ottilie Bondy, Henry Kautsch, and Goerg Adam Scheid. In his capacity at the Imperial Central Commission, Bodart helped to expand the collection of the Vienna
Bibliotheque. Bodart also traveled extensively. He visited the United States as part of the organizing committee for the Austrian exhibit at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition. Two years later, he was part of an Austrian delegation to examine the United States Commission on Fisheries exhibits. In 1907, he traveled from Genoa to New York City, and from there via train to Milwaukee and Chicago, to visit the
World's Pure Food Exposition (1907). In his assessment of Austria's wars with France, 1805–1815, which he prepared in 1913, Bodart wrote of
Napoleon Bonaparte, "No other man has sacrificed so many human victims to the god of war as did Napoleon I; no other man has sowed death broadcast on such a scale; no other commander ever cared less for his soldiers than he." His manuscript of
Die Menschen-Verluste Osterreich-Ungarns im Weltkriege 1914–1918 remained unpublished. ==Selected publications==