Per Jonas Nordhagen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Norwegian art historian
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Place of Birth: Bergen, Hordaland, Norway
About Per Jonas Nordhagen
- Per Jonas Nordhagen (born 30 October 1929) is a Norwegian art historian. He was born in Bergen as a son of professor Rolf Nordhagen (1894–1979) and Elisabeth Marie Myhre (1900–1979).
- He was a grandson of Johan Nordhagen and nephew of Olaf Nordhagen.
- He has been married twice; first to art historian Signe Horn Fuglesang, a daughter of Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang.He finished his secondary education in 1948 and took the mag.art.
- degree (PhD equivalent) at the University of Oslo in 1955.
- He was a lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1962 to 1969, and after taking the dr.philos.
- degree in 1968 he became a docent at the University of Bergen from 1969 to 1973.
- He managed the Norwegian Institute in Rome from 1973, succeeding his mentor Hans Peter L'Orange, before being a docent at the University of Oslo from 1976 to 1986 and a professor at the University of Bergen from 1986 to 1999.
- He was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1974.His special field was Roma and Byzantine mosaics and frescos.
- He has also been involved in architecture and protection of buildings, among others in the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments.
- In 1994 he became deputy chairman of the National Gallery of Norway.
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