Agnes Hammarskjöld
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden
Assumed role
1914–1917
Prime MinisterHjalmar Hammarskjöld
Personal details
Born
Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist

1866
Died1940 (aged 73–74)
SpouseHjalmar Hammarskjöld
Children4
ResidenceUppsala

Agnes Hammarskjöld (née Almqvist; 1866–1940) was a Swedish woman who was the wife of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, a Swedish nobleman and prime minister in the period 1914–1917.

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. 1 2 Roger Lipsey (2013). Hammarskjöld: A Life. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. pp. 18, 26. ISBN 978-0-472-11890-8.
  2. 1 2 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. 1 2 "Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld". LitteraturMagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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. 1 2 Iuliu-Marius Morariu (October 2021). "Spiritual autobiographies as sources of the ecumenism: Dag Hammarskjöld's case". HTS Teologiese Studies. 77 (4).
  7. ↑ 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.

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