Jan Svanberg

Jan Svanberg
Jan Svanberg
	Jan Svanberg in Gotland, 2016
Born	June 18, 1935; Stockholm, Sweden
Died	April 21, 2024 (aged 88)
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation(s)	Professor, art historian.
Spouse	Birgitta Svanberg [sv] (m.1965-2013)
Parents	Victor Svanberg [sv]; Inga Esbjörnsson;

Jan Viktor Svanberg (18 June 1935 – 21 April 2024)^[1] was a Swedish art historian specialized in medieval art and professor emeritus of Art History at Stockholm University.^[2]

Personal life

Jan Svanberg was the son of the literary historian Victor Svanberg [sv] and Inga Esbjörnsson, and the nephew of the Nordist Nils Svanberg [sv]. In 1965 he married the literary scholar and feminist Birgitta Svanberg [sv].^[3]

Svanberg graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1960, a Filosofie licentiat [sv] in 1965 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Stockholm in 1973.

He was a teacher at the Södermalmsskolan [sv] in 1961-1962 and a teacher in the Department of Art History at Stockholm University starting in 1962.

He was a Lecturer between 1974 and 1993, a Docent between 1981 and 1986, Prefekt (akademisk titel) [sv] between 1982-1989 and Professor between 1982-1983 and 1989. In 1994 he became a professor of art history at the University of Oslo.^[3] He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1995.^[4]

In 1990, Jan Svanberg received the Samfundet S:t Erik plaque at the same time as Göran Dahlbäck [sv].

^ Sveriges befolkning 1990, CD-ROM, Version 1.00, Riksarkivet (2011).
^ "Centrum för medeltidsstudier". www.su.se (in Swedish). 2023-10-23. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
^ ^a ^b Vem Är Det 1997 s 1075.
^ "Utenlandske medlemmer". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 15 July 2007. Retrieved 22 November 2023.

Svanberg, Jan (1998) [1993]. Sankt Göran och draken. Tiden, Rabén Prisma.
Svanberg, Jan; Hans Aili (2003). Imagines Sanctae Birgittae : the earliest illuminated manuscripts and panel paintings related to the revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden. Vol. 1 Text, Vol.2 Plates. Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.
Svanberg, Jan (2011). Västergötlands medeltida stenskulptur. Signum.
Svanberg, Jan (2013). Medeltida byggmästare i Norden. Signum.