Frithjof Halfdan Jacobsen (14 January 1914 – 14 March 1999) was a Norwegian diplomat.
He was born inSouth Shields as a son of shipmaster and navy captainCarl Gustav Jacobsen (1878–1941) and Frida Mørch (1878–1968). He returned to Norway, where hefinished his secondary education in 1932 before studying law at theUniversity of Oslo. He graduated with thecand.jur. degree in 1937 and studied at theLondon School of Economics before being hired in theNorwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1938. He served as an attaché at the Norwegian legation inParis, and had to flee the country in June 1940. In October he reached London, where he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs-in-exile. Norway had beenoccupied by Germany. In October 1941 inLondon he married captain's daughter Elsa Tidemand Andersen.[1]
After the war he worked in Norway and as embassy secretary in Moscow and London, before being hired as an assistant secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1950. He was then an embassy councillor in London from 1953 to 1955, deputy under-secretary of state in Norway from 1955 to 1959, Norway's ambassador toCanada from 1959 to 1961, and ambassador to theSoviet Union from 1961 to 1965. He then joinedBorten's Cabinet as a non-partisan member, and was aState Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1970. He returned as ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1970 to 1974, then ambassador to theUnited Kingdom from 1975 to 1982.[1][2]
He was decorated as a Commander of theOrder of St. Olav in 1964. He died in March 1999 in Oslo.[1]
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| Preceded by | Norwegian Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1961–1965 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Norwegian Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1970–1974 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Norwegian Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1975–1982 | Succeeded by |