• 02.03.1876 : born in Boussu (Hainaut). Secondary education (humanities) in Arlon and Brussels.
• 1900 : doctorate in philosophy and literature (classical philology) at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
• 07.02.1903 : trainee at the Royal Library of Belgium.
• 04.09.1905 : voluntary employee of the Manuscripts Section.
• 30.04.1912 : first class employee.
• 30.04.1918 : deputy curator of the Manuscripts Section.
• 14.10.1920 : curator of the Manuscripts Section.
• 31.03.1941 : retired.
• 1946 : co-founder of the publication Scriptorium with Frédéric Lyna and François Masai.
• 09.01.1947 : member of the section of Fine Arts of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
• 1948-1958 : secretary of the Commission of the Biographie nationale.
• 03.02.1960 : died in Boitsfort (Brussels).

Camille Gaspar started his career in the Manuscripts Section, which he led from 1920 to 1941. In the biographical note dedicated to him in Archives, bibliothèques et musées de Belgique, 1960, vol. XXXI, p. 185-186, Fernand Remy writes that Gaspar "spent his entire career between the manuscripts of the Burgundian Library the collections of which he tried to augment, to preserve and to make known ; in doing so he displayed lots of shrewdness and scholarship, qualities he concealed behind his charming modesty and discretion". During the first years of his career in the Royal Library he was also a member of the Association des conservateurs d'archives et bibliothèques de Belgique since its foundation in 1907. Repeatedly he was elected chairman of the section of librarians. He liked to devote himself within the Société des bibliophiles et iconophiles de Belgique and the œuvre nationale pour la reproduction des manuscrits à miniatures. He liked to live among his colleagues who appreciated or dreaded his caustic wit : "On a personal level, we shall all remember him as an amiable and extremely pleasant colleague, and also as a perfect man of the world, jovial and witty." (Remy, ibidem.). Portrait : medal by Armand Bonnetain, sculptor (1932).

Portrait : médaille du sculpteur Armand Bonnetain (1932).