Agnes Hammarskjöld
Agnes Hammarskjöld | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Hammarskjöld c. 1907-1908 | |
| Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden | |
| Assumed role 1914–1917 | |
| Prime Minister | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist 1866 |
| Died | 1940 (aged 73–74) |
| Spouse | Hjalmar Hammarskjöld |
| Children | 4 |
| Residence | Uppsala |
Agnes Hammarskjöld (née Almqvist; 1866–1940) was a Swedish woman who was the wife of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, a Swedish nobleman and prime minister from 1914 to 1917.
Biography
Agnes Almqvist was born in 1866.[1] She hailed from an established family, and her father was Fridolf Almqvist who served as the director general of the National Prisons Board.[2] Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, an author, was her father's half-brother.[1] Agnes had four brothers.[3] She married Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, and they lived in Vasa Castle.[4] They had four sons: Bo, Åke, Sten and Dag.[5] She was a religious person and intensively dealt with theology.[6] She was one of the confidants of Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, the Lutheran bishop of Uppsala.[6] She died in 1940 and was buried in the family grave in Uppsala.[2][7] In October 2011 a book about her entitled Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld was published by Lisa Segerhed.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roger Lipsey (2013). Hammarskjöld: A Life. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. pp. 18, 26. ISBN 978-0-472-11890-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bengt Thelin (December 1998). "Fostered to Internationalism and Peace: Biographical Notes on UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjold" (PDF). Peace Education Miniprints. Institute of Education Sciences. ISSN 1101-6418. Archived from the original (Conference paper) on 10 July 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld". LitteraturMagazinet (in svenska). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ Shantala M. DuGay (2016). Dag Hammarskjöld and Modern Art: An Inquiry into the Aesthetic Values of the Second Secretary-General of the United Nations (MA thesis). CUNY Hunter College. p. 10.
- ↑ Aaron Dean Rietkerk (June 2015). In Pursuit of Development: The United Nations, Decolonization and Development Aid, 1949-1961 (PhD thesis). London School of Economics. p. 78.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Iuliu-Marius Morariu (October 2021). "Spiritual autobiographies as sources of the ecumenism: Dag Hammarskjöld's case". HTS Teologiese Studies. 77 (4).
- ↑ Peter B. Heller (2001). The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961. Lanham, MD; London: Scarecrow Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4617-0209-2.
Further reading
- Lisa Segerhed (2011). Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld (in svenska). ISBN 9789163396236.
External links
Media related to Agnes Hammarskjöld at Wikimedia Commons
