Agnes Hammarskjöld Explained

Office:Spouse of the Prime Minister of Sweden
Primeminister:Hjalmar Hammarskjöld
Term Label:Assumed role
Term Start:1914
Term End:1917
Birthname:Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist
Birth Date:1866
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.

She married Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, and they lived in Vasa Castle.[3] They had four sons: Bo, Åke, Sten and Dag.[4]

She was a religious person and intensively dealt with theology. She was one of the confidants of Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, the Lutheran bishop of Uppsala.[5] She died in 1940 and was buried in the family grave in Uppsala.[2] [6]

In October 2011 a book about her entitled Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld was published by Lisa Segerhed.[7]

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Roger Lipsey. Hammarskjöld: A Life. 2013. 978-0-472-11890-8. University of Michigan Press. 18, 26. Ann Arbor, MI.
  2. Bengt Thelin. Fostered to Internationalism and Peace: Biographical Notes on UN General Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Conference paper. December 1998. 1101-6418. Peace Education Miniprints. Institute of Education Sciences. https://web.archive.org/web/20200710211215/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED431691.pdf. 10 July 2020.
  3. Shantala M. DuGay. Dag Hammarskjöld and Modern Art: An Inquiry into the Aesthetic Values of the Second Secretary-General of the United Nations. 10. MA. 2016. CUNY Hunter College.
  4. Aaron Dean Rietkerk. In Pursuit of Development: The United Nations, Decolonization and Development Aid, 1949-1961. June 2015. 78. PhD. London School of Economics.
  5. Iuliu-Marius Morariu. Spiritual autobiographies as sources of the ecumenism: Dag Hammarskjöld's case. HTS Teologiese Studies. October 2021. 77. 4.
  6. Book: Peter B. Heller. The United Nations under Dag Hammarskjold, 1953-1961. Scarecrow Press. 11. 2001. 978-1-4617-0209-2. Lanham, MD; London.
  7. News: Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld. 25 December 2022 . sv . LitteraturMagazinet.