Ivar Lunde, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ivar Lunde

Norwegian diplomat

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1908

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1992

Profession: lawyer, diplomat, translator, linguist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ivar Lunde

  • Ivar Lunde (18 June 1908 – 18 July 1992) was a Norwegian diplomat. He was born in Pavlovsk, and took the examen artium in 1927 and the cand.jur.
  • degree in 1932.
  • He started working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1933, and was stationed in Paris, Moscow, Teheran, Ankara and Lisbon.
  • From 1946 to 1949 he was an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before spending three years as a counsellor at the Norwegian United Nations embassy, legation counsellor and chargé d'affaires in Athens and Tel Aviv.
  • He was stationed in Athens; a separate station in Tel Aviv was not opened until 1958.He was then the Norwegian envoy to Thailand from 1952, then ambassador to Turkey from 1956.
  • As such he also acted as the ambassador to Iraq, Iran and West Pakistan.
  • He was the ambassador to Finland from 1962, to the Soviet Union (and Mongolia) from 1966 and to Austria from 1970 to 1977.
  • Here he was also the Norwegian permanent delegate to IAEA, UNIDO and MBFR.After 1977, he was a special adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • At the same time he worked as a lawyer for refugees in Norway, and took up translation.
  • He was an authorized translator from the Polish language since 1978, and translated Czeslaw Milosz among others.
  • He died in 1992.

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