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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld

Swedish statesman
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Also known as: Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld
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Born:
Feb. 4, 1862, Tuna, Swed.
Died:
Oct. 12, 1953, Stockholm (aged 91)
Title / Office:
prime minister (1914-1917), Sweden
Notable Family Members:
son Dag Hammarskjöld
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Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (born Feb. 4, 1862, Tuna, Swed.—died Oct. 12, 1953, Stockholm) was a statesman who, as prime minister of Sweden, maintained his country’s neutrality during World War I. After teaching civil law at Uppsala University (1891–95), Hammarskjöld worked in the Ministry of Justice and acted as head of that ministry in 1901–02. He was appointed president of the Göta Supreme Court in 1902 and became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1904, where he served until 1946. In 1905 he acted as minister of education and as a delegate to the negotiations in ...(100 of 241 words)

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