Dag Hammarskjöld

Also known as Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)

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Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961. He is remembered as an influential international leader who worked to resolve Cold War conflicts and expand the UN's role in peacekeeping during a critical period in global history.

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Works: 169

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A bibliography of the Charter of the United Nations
Sanctions against South Africa
STATUTES AND SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION - A SELECTED SOURCE LIST OF COLLECTIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND OTHER AIDS
Granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples
United Nations document series symbols, 1946-1996

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sweden
Active from: 1905-07-29
Active to: 1961-09-18

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The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
· 2002 · cited 8,251x
Effects of intensive blood-pressure lowering and low-dose aspirin in patients with hypertension: principal results of the Hypertension Optimal Treatment (HOT) randomised trial
· 1998 · cited 4,236x
Diagnosis and management of dementia with Lewy bodies
· 2017 · cited 3,990x
Clinical diagnostic criteria for dementia associated with Parkinson's disease
· 2007 · cited 2,669x
Diagnostic criteria for mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease: <i>Movement</i> Disorder Society Task Force guidelines
· 2012 · cited 2,366x

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Quotes

“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”
“It has been said that the United Nations was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell.”
“A man of firm convictions does not ask, and does not receive, understanding from those with whom he comes into conflict. ... A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only firm support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcome and valuable, but it does not free him from responsibility. Therefore, he may become very lonely.”
“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right — you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.”
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
“I never discuss discussions.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize1961
“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”

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Encyclopedic overview

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (/ˈhæmərʃʊld/ HAM-ər-shuuld; Swedish: [ˈdɑːɡ ˈhâmːarˌɧœld] ; 29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. As of 2026, he remains the youngest person to have held the post, having been only 47 years old when he was elected. He was a son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917.

Hammarskjöld's tenure was characterized by efforts to strengthen the newly-formed UN both internally and externally. He led initiatives to improve morale and organizational efficiency while seeking to make the UN more responsive to global issues. He presided over the creation of the first UN peacekeeping forces in Egypt (the UNEF) and the Congo (the ONUC) and personally intervened to defuse or resolve diplomatic crises. Hammarskjöld's second term was cut short when he died in a plane crash while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis.

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