Jens Schive (18 October 1900 – 17 December 1962) was a Norwegian journalist and diplomat.
Biography
Schive was born in Grimstad, and finished his secondary education in 1918. The same year, however, he started working as a journalist in the newspaper Vestlandske Tidende. In 1920 he left to work for the Norwegian News Agency, where he was made director of the international news department in 1932.[1]
From 1945 to 1948 he was media director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1948 to 1951 he was Norway's representative at the new Indian government in Delhi. In 1951 he was appointed ambassador in Moscow, moving on to Sweden in 1953 and Switzerland in 1961. He died in December 1962,[1][2] 12 years after his wife Kan Sooth's death (24 January 1950). They had a son together.[3]
References
^ ab"Jens Schive død". VG (in Norwegian). 17 December 1962. p. 16.