Duan Wenjie (August 23, 1917 — January 21, 2011) was a Chinese archaeologist. Director of the Dunhuang Academy.

Biography

Born in 1917 in Changle Town,

Pengxi County Pengxi County () is a county of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the southeast. It is under the administration of Suining Suining (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Xu4nin2; Sichuanese pronunciation: ; ) is a prefecture-level city of eastern ...

, Suining City,

Sichuan Province Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, and originally from

Mianyang Mianyang (; formerly known as Mienchow) is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China. Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and thre ...

, Sichuan Province, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Painting at Chongqing National College of Fine Arts (now the Central Academy of Fine Arts) in 1945 and joined the National Dunhuang Art Institute in July 1946 as Acting Head of the Archaeological Group; in 1950, he became Head of the Fine Arts Group of the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics and acting director of the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics; in 1980, he became First Deputy Director of the Dunhuang Institute of Cultural Relics. He was appointed honorary professor at

Tokyo University of the Arts or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, scul ...

in 1986 and retired as honorary director of the Dunhuang Academy in 1998. He died on January 21, 2011, at 17:00 in Lanzhou at the age of 95. He was buried with his wife, Long Shiying, in Dunhuang.{{Cite web , title=图：著名敦煌学家段文杰逝世——中新网 , url=https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/2011/01-23/2805820.shtml , access-date=2023-05-09 , website=www.chinanews.com.cn

References

Members of the 6th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the 7th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 1917 births 2011 deaths