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