Dag Hammarskjöld - Nobel Peace Prize — 1961
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Dag Hammarskjöld

Prize
Nobel Peace Prize — 1961
for developing the UN into an effective and constructive international organization, capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter
Citizenship
SwedenSweden
Languages
Swedish
date of birth
7/29/1905
place of birth
Jönköping
date of death
9/18/1961
place of death
Ndola
Lived
56 years

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occupation
  • economist
  • diplomat
  • writer
  • philosopher
  • poet
  • politician
field of work
  • diplomacy
  • peace movement
  • politics
educated at
  • Uppsala University
    • start time: 1923
  • Stockholm University
  • Tant Hildurs skola
employer
  • United Nations
  • Ministry of Finance of Sweden
position held
  • secretary of state
    • start time: 1936
    • end time: 1945
  • United Nations Secretary-General
    • start time: 4/10/1953
    • end time: 9/18/1961
  • Minister of Foreign Trade
    • start time: 2/6/1951
    • end time: 4/8/1953
  • seat 17 of the Swedish Academy
    • start time: 12/20/1954
    • end time: 9/17/1961
member of
  • Swedish Academy
    • start time: 1954
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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