Tancred Ibsen, Jr.

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Tancred Ibsen, Jr. (born 6 July 1921) is a Norwegian diplomat.

He was born in Kristiania as a son of Tancred Ibsen and Lillebil Ibsen.^[1] He is the great-grandson of both playwright Henrik Ibsen and Nobel Prize laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

He finished Oslo Commerce School in 1939 before taking the cand.oecon. degree in 1943 and the cand.jur. degree in 1946.^[2] He started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1947, and was promoted to assistant secretary in 1960. He held various positions between 1962 and 1968, before serving as the Norwegian ambassador to Hungary from 1968 to 1973, to Egypt from 1973 to 1979, to the People's Republic of China from 1979 to 1982, to India from 1982 to 1986 and to Greece from 1986 to 1989.^[1]

While serving in India he also covered Sri Lanka^[3] and the Maldives.^[4]

He has been decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav. After retiring he settled in Lillesand.^[5]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tancred Ibsen – norsk diplomat". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
↑ "Tancred Ibsen 70 år 6. juli" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 14 June 1991.
↑ Sandvig, Helge (15 September 1984). "Norge gransker tamilers forhold". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 18.
↑ "Offisielt fra statsråd". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 28 July 1984. p. 15.
↑ "Jubilanter". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). 6 July 2011.

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Torleif Anda	Norwegian ambassador to China 1979–1982	Succeeded by Arne Arnesen
Preceded by	Norwegian ambassador to India 1982–1986	Succeeded by Kåre Dæhlen

Persondata
Name	Ibsen, Tancred
Alternative names
Short description	Norwegian diplomat
Date of birth	6 July 1921
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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