Background
Wirgin, Jan Christer was born on June 15, 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Nils Allan Christer and Margit Alma Louise (Gyllenberg) Wirgin.
art educator Museum director emeritus
Wirgin, Jan Christer was born on June 15, 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden. Son of Nils Allan Christer and Margit Alma Louise (Gyllenberg) Wirgin.
Master of Arts, University Stockholm, 1955. Degree in philosophy, University Stockholm, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Stockholm, 1970.
Assistant curator to director, Museum Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1957-1998;
director emeritus, Museum Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Deputy director Swedish National Art Museum, Stockholm, 1989-1998. Professor art U. Hawaii, Honolulu, 1966-1967.
Associate professor of University Stockholm, since 1970, censor U. Copenhagen, since 1969, U. Arhus, since 1983.
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Member China Committee (secretary), Sweden-Japan Society (vice chairman), Swedish-Thai Society (director 1974-1998), Friends Association Museum Far Eastern Antiquities (director 1960-1998), Swedish Archaeol. Society, Swedish Association Museum Curators, Oriental Ceramic Society Sweden (board directors), Oriental Ceramic Society (London), Travellers Club.
Married Signe Margareta Brunnberg, May 24, 1958. Children: Claes Christer, Jeanette Louise.