Herbert was one of the pioneer, veteran and model consecutive interpreters from the
League of Nations and the
International Labor Office. His father was an English-speaking Frenchman. He was married to an English woman, with whom he had two daughters, Janine Yates and Yvette Renoux. He held the chair of Eastern Mythologies at the
University of Geneva, where he taught from 1954 to 1964. Jean Herbert died in 1980 at the age of 83. == See also ==