Hjalmar Hammarskjöld

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld (born Feb. 4, 1862, Tuna, Swed.—died Oct. 12, 1953, Stockholm) was a statesman who, as prime minister of Sweden, maintained his country’s neutrality during World War I. After teaching civil law at Uppsala University (1891–95), Hammarskjöld worked in the Ministry of Justice and acted as head of that ministry in 1901–02. He was appointed president of the Göta Supreme Court in 1902 and became a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at...