Jørgen Finne-Grønn
Norwegian diplomat
Jørgen Magnus Finne-Grønn (30 July 1905 – 3 October 1998) was a Norwegian diplomat.
Early life and family
He was born in Kristiania as a son of genealogist Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn (1869–1953) and Margrethe Borchgrevink (1873–1963). He was a brother of painter Hans Finne-Grønn and a grandson of Sofie Borchgrevink. 1947 he married Margareta Christiansen, a daughter of businessperson Christian Christiansen.
Education and early career
He finished his secondary education in 1924, and graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.jur. degree in 1931. He started working in the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same year, and he was stationed as a secretary at the consulate in Marseille from 1933 to 1934, the legation in Ankara from 1934 to 1936, in Norway from 1936 to 1937, in New York City in 1937, the legation in London from 1941 to 1946, and in Brussels from 1946.
Diplomatic career
He became an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1948. He was the Norwegian ambassador to Czechoslovakia and Hungary from 1952 to 1958, to Chile, Peru and Bolivia from 1960 to 1966, and Portugal from 1966 to 1975. During his time as ambassador to Czechoslovakia, there was a spying scandal.
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