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Andrzej Michal Wawrzyniak – (born 1931) a sailor, diplomat, connoisseur and collector of the Oriental art, founder and a Lifetime Director and Curator-in Chief of the Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw. In Indonesia, a country with which he has very close professional and emotional ties, he is known as “Andrzej Nusantara Wawrzyniak”.〔The name “Nusantara” was conferred on him by president Sukarno of Indonesia〕 ==Biography== He was born on December 3, 1931 in Warsaw. At the age of sixteen he boarded the full-rigged school ship “Dar Pomorza”, then sailed on twelve ships, moving up from being a deck boy to the rank of officer of the Polish Merchant Marine. In the meantime he graduated from the Diplomatic and Consular Faculty of the Foreign Service School in Warsaw, then studied at the Maritime Faculty of the Economic School in Sopot, and at the Social Sciences School in Warsaw (postgraduate and doctoral studies). In the 1956 he joined the Polish diplomatic service, to be promoted to the rank of the Minister Plenipotentiary in 1973. * From 1956–1960 Andrzej Wawrzyniak was chief of the department of the Polish Delegation to the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam. * From 1961–1965 – he was a cultural attaché to – and from 1967 to 1971 deputy head of mission and chargé d'affaires at the Embassy of Poland in Indonesia. * From 1973–1974 – he was head of the Polish Delegation to the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Laos. * From 1977–1981 – he was head of the Polish Embassy in Nepal. He was also the UN international observer of the elections in Namibia (1989). * From 1990–1993 - he was a head of the Polish Embassy in Afghanistan, later a head of the Field Office of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996) and UN observer in East Timor (1999). * Andrzej Wawrzyniak had also been the Honorary Consul General of Sri Lanka in Poland (1997–2003). Altogether he spent more than a quarter of a century in Asia amassing a significant collection of ethnographical and artistic objects from various countries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrzej Wawrzyniak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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