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Biography of Dag Hammarskjöld
Name: Dag Hammarskjöld
Birth Date: July 19, 1905
Death Date: September 17, 1961
Place of Birth: Jönköping, Sweden
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: diplomat, politician
Dag Hammarskjöld
The Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) served as the secretary general of the United Nations from 1953 until his death.Dag Hammarskjöld played a leading role in expanding the operations of the United Nations (UN), most notably through the establishment of peace-keeping forces and through technical and economic assistance to poor and newly independent nations. He practiced "quiet diplomacy" to reduce conflict and to build an international civil service that could carry out functions necessary to maintain peace and promote welfare. His extraordinary intellectual brilliance and courage were widely admired.Dag Hammarskjöld was born on July 19, 1905, in Jönköping into one of Sweden's oldest aristocratic families, with a long history of government service. Hammarskjöld spent most of his childhood in Uppsala, where his father served as provincial governor. He attended a private school and then entered the university in 1923. He received …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Hammarskjöld: Custodian of the Brushfire Peace (1961); Sten Valdemar Söderberg, Dag Hammarskjöld: A Pictorial Biography (1962); Emery Kelen, Hammarskjöld (1966); Sven Stolpe, Dag Hammarskjöld: A Spiritual Portrait (trans. 1966); Charles May Simon, Dag Hammarskjöld (1967); Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Dag Hammarskjöld: The Statesman and His Faith (1967); Emery Kelen, ed., Hammarskjöld: The Political Man (1968); and Bo Beskow, Dag Hammarskjöld: Strictly Personal; A Portrait (1969). Gustaf Aulén, Dag Hammarskjöld's White Book: The Meaning of "Markings" (1969), is an investigation of the intellectual and theological background for Hammarskjöld's views recorded in his Markings. One of the most useful studies of Hammarskjöld's role in the UN is Marc W. Zacher, Dag Hammarskjöld's United Nations (1969).Hammarskjöld, Dag, Markings, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976, 1964.Urquhart, Brian., Hammarskjöld, New York: Harper & Row, 1984, 1972.
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