Ivar Lunde

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Ivar Lunde (18 June 1908 – 18 July 1992) was a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Pavlovsk[

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.[1] He was stationed in Athens; a separate station in Tel Aviv was not opened until 1958.[2]

He was then the Norwegian envoy to

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 Czesław Miłosz among others.[1] He died in 1992.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Dagens navn". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 18 June 1988. p. 20.
  2. ^ "Flyttesjau uten like i utenrikstjenesten". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 11 October 1958. p. 16.
  3. ^ "Utenriksetaten". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). 23 December 1961. p. 19.
  4. ^ a b Ofstad, E. F. (29 July 1992). "Ivar Lunde (obituary)". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 13.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Norwegian ambassador to the Soviet Union
1966–1970
Succeeded by