About Per Voksø
Lived 1923 – 2002 (aged 79). Per Voksø was a Norwegian editing staff.
Per Voksø (23 June 1923 – 28 December 2002) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and Christian leader.
He was born in Bergen as the son of Julius Peder Voksø (1888–1937) and Gudrun Larssen (1891–1972). He took commerce school in 1941 and examen artium in 1944. In 1945 he started as a journalist in Bergen's Christian newspaper, Dagen. He participated at the foundation congress of the World Council of Churches in 1948. In the same year he married shipmaster's daughter Doris Paulsen. They got four children together.
He was hired as subeditor of Vår Kirke in 1954, and Morgenposten in 1957. He succeeded Asbjørn Engen. However, shortly after the newspaper was bought by industrialist Sverre Munck. The previous owner was Libertas, a semi-secret libertarian organization. Voksø ran afoul with the new owner, and resigned after only three months in the editor's chair.
Voksø chaired YMCA Norway from 1955 to 1964 and was a member of the executive committee of the international YMCA from 1955 to 1961 and 1968 to 1974.
He was also a board member of the Church City Mission and Norwegian Church Aid, and chaired the latter organization from 1980 to 1986. In 1992 he was decorated as Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. He died in December 2002 in Oslo.
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Who was Per Voksø?
Norwegian newspaper editor (1923-2002)
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Per Voksø was born on 23 June 1923 in Bergen Municipality.
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Per Voksø died on 28 December 2002.
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Per Voksø was an editing staff.
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Per Voksø was Norwegian.
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