Agnes Hammarskjöld (

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Almqvist; 1866–1940) was a

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woman who was the wife of

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld (; 4 February 1862 – 12 October 1953) was a Swedish politician, scholar, cabinet minister, Member of Parliament from 1923 to 1938 (first chamber), and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917. In 1890, he m ...

, a Swedish nobleman and prime minister in the period 1914–1917.

Biography

Agnes Almqvist was born in 1866. She hailed from an established family, and her father was Fridolf Almqvist who served as the director general of the National Prisons Board. Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, an author, was her father's half-brother. Agnes had four brothers. She married Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, and they lived in Vasa Castle. They had four sons: Bo,

Åke Åke is a masculine Swedish given name, possibly derived from the medieval Germanic name ''Anicho'', derived from ''ano'' meaning "ancestor". In Sweden, May 8 is the Name day for Åke. There are variant spellings, including the Danish/Norwegian ...

, Sten and Dag. She was a religious person and intensively dealt with

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. She was one of the confidants of Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, the

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bishop of Uppsala The Archbishop of Uppsala (spelled Upsala until the early 20th century) has been the primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church. Historical ove ...

. She died in 1940 and was buried in the family grave in Uppsala. In October 2011 a book about her entitled ''Agnes dag: en bild av Agnes Maria Carolina Almquist, gift Hammarskjöld'' was published by Lisa Segerhed.

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