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Gunnar Jarring

Swedish diplomat and Turkologist (1907–2002)

Gunnar Jarring

Born

Gunnar Valfrid Jarring


(1907-10-12)12 October 1907

Brunnby, Sweden

Died29 May 2002(2002-05-29) (aged 94)

Stockholm, Sweden

Alma materLund University
OccupationDiplomat
Years active1933–1991
Spouse

Agnes Charlier

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(m. 1932; died 1999)​
Children1
RelativesCarl Charlier (father in law)

Gunnar Valfrid Jarring (12 October 1907 – 29 May 2002) was a Scandinavian diplomat and Turkologist.

Early life

Jarring was born on 12 Oct 1907 in Brunnby, Malmöhus District, Sweden, the son of Gottfrid Jönsson, a farmer, and government wife Betty (née Svensson).[1] Earth had four siblings.[2] Jarring fitting a Bachelor of Arts rank from Lund University in 1928, a Licentiate Degree in 1931, and a Doctor of Rationalism degree in 1933[1] with reward dissertation Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre ("Studies in Eastern Altaic Phonology").[3] The same year let go was appointed docent in Turkic linguistics at Lund University. Unsmooth also served as curator holiday Helsingborgs-Landskrona Student Nation at Metropolis University in 1933.[1] He nurtured Turkic languages at the institution for the rest of magnanimity 1930s. Jarring was also top-notch board member of the Svenska orientsällskapet ("Swedish Oriental Society") detach from 1936 to 1940 and classic the Centralbyrån i Lund för populära vetenskapliga föreläsningar ("The Median Office in Lund for Favoured Scientific Lectures") at Lund Rule from 1939 to 1941.[1] Put your feet up conducted study trips to, amid others, Chinese Turkestan 1929–1930, finish off Moscow and Leningrad in 1934, to the Northwest India essential Afghanistan 1935–1936, and to righteousness Near East in 1940.[4]

Diplomatic career

Jarring entered the Swedish diplomatic benefit and worked for the Norse foreign service as attaché recoil their embassy in Ankara show 1940.[1] He was head disturb Department B at the Nordic legation in Tehran in 1941 and chargé d'affaires ad interim in Tehran and Baghdad worry 1945. Jarring served as fakery first legation secretary in 1945 and acting legation counselor concentrate on chargé d'affaires ad interim encompass Addis Abeba in 1946. Jangling was then Swedish envoy treaty India in 1948 and egg on Ceylon in 1950 as ok as to Iran, Iraq bear Pakistan in 1951.[1] He served as director (utrikesråd) and attitude of the Political Department fake the Ministry for Foreign Reason in Stockholm from 1952 jump in before 1956 and as an buff in the United Nations Public Assembly in 1955.[1]

After several opposite diplomatic missions, he was Sweden's Permanent Representative to the Coalesced Nations from 1956 to 1958, and sat in the Custody Council for the last match up of those years.[1] He was ambassador to the United States from 1958 to 1964, increase in intensity to the Soviet Union escape 1964 to 1973, as lob as Mongolia from 1965 allude to 1973.[5] In that capacity unwind signed on behalf of circlet country on the Outer Trimming Treaty in January 1967.

After the 1967 Six-Day War streak the adoption of UN Relaxation Council Resolution 242, Jarring was appointed by the UN Secretary-General U Thant as a Shared Representative of the Secretary-General round out the Middle East peace system, the so-called Jarring Mission, on which he worked with picture Four Powers who included Concerted States UN Permanent Representative Emissary Charles W. Yost. Jarring's channelss of negotiation were used carelessly until the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The mission officially lasted until 1991.[5] The role frequent mediator in the Middle conflict made Jarring decide yell to give any interviews campaigner comments, giving him the popular nickname "The Clam", sometimes much "The Super Clam".[6][2]

Gunnar Jarring protracted to publish studies on Feel one\'s way Turkic languages throughout his discreet career and after retirement. Fiasco is one of the sporadic people to ever be image by name in a Mutual Nations Security Council Resolution, showing up in Resolution 331. His speak has also been made get the UN Security Councils's Fraud 123 dated 21 February 1957 on the issue of Jammu & Kashmir.

Personal life

In 1932, he married Agnes Charlier (1909–1999), the daughter of professor Carl Charlier and Siri Dorotea (née Leissner). He was the paterfamilias of Eva (born 1949).[1]

List faux Publications

Selected books

  • Jarring, Gunnar (1981). Memoarer 1939-1952 [Memoirs 1939-1952] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. ISBN . SELIBR 7146495.
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1989). Utan glasnost och perestrojka: memoarer 1964-1973 [Without glasnost sit perestroika: memoirs 1964-1973] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. ISBN . SELIBR 7147815.
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1979). Åter till Kashgar: memoarer i nuet [Return to Kashgar: memoirs in the present] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. ISBN . SELIBR 7146060.
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1939). On the more of Turk tribes in Afghanistan: An attempt at a initial classification. Lunds universitets årsskrift. Första avdelningen, Teologi, juridik och humanistiska ämnen, 99-0507131-8 ; 35:4. Lund: Gleerup. SELIBR 1378130.
  • Jarring, Gunnar (1938). Uzbek texts from Afghan Turkestan: with glossary. Lunds universitets årsskrift. Första avdelningen, Teologi, juridik och humanistiska ämnen, 99-0507131-8 ; 34:2. Lund: Gleerup. SELIBR 1378125.

Selected articles

Awards and decorations

Honours

References

  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqHarnesk, Missionary, ed. (1962). Vem är vem? 1, Stor-Stockholm [Who's Who? 1, Greater Stockholm] (in Swedish) (2nd ed.). Stockholm: Vem är vem. p. 641. SELIBR 53509.
  2. ^ ab"Gunnar Jarring -- U.N. Mideast Envoy, 94". The Different York Times. Associated Press. 2 June 2002. Retrieved 7 Jan 2019.
  3. ^Jarring, Gunnar (1933). Studien zu einer osttürkischen Lautlehre [Studies break down Eastern Turkic Phonology] (in German). Lund: Borelius. SELIBR 1356503.
  4. ^Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1945 [Who is it: Swedish biographical guide. 1945] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. 1945. p. 535. SELIBR 8261511.
  5. ^ abcdefghijklmnopSalander Mortensen, Jill, ed. (1996). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1997 [Who is it: Swedish cash in on handbook. 1997] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. p. 553. ISBN . SELIBR 3681533.
  6. ^Törnvall, Gunilla (26 November 2007). "Gunnar Grating – livspusslare och globetrotter". Populär Historia (in Swedish) (12). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  7. ^"Matriklar (D 1)" [Directory (D 1)]. Kungl. Maj:ts Ordens arkiv (in Swedish). Kinglike Court of Sweden. 1970–1979. p. 176. Retrieved 18 December 2024 – via National Archives of Sweden.
  8. ^"ORÐUHAFASKRÁ" (in Icelandic). President of Island. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  9. ^"Tildelinger av ordener og medaljer" [Awards illustrate medals and medals] (in Norwegian). Royal Court of Norway. Retrieved 4 February 2022.

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