1. Gunnar Valfrid Jarring was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.
14 Facts About Gunnar Jarring
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Gunnar Jarring earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lund University in 1928, a Licentiate Degree in 1931, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1933 with his dissertation Studien zu einer ostturkischen Lautlehre.
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Gunnar Jarring served as curator of Helsingborgs-Landskrona Student Nation at Lund University in 1933.
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Gunnar Jarring taught Turkic languages at the university for the rest of the 1930s.
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Gunnar Jarring was a board member of the Svenska orientsallskapet from 1936 to 1940 and of the Centralbyran i Lund for populara vetenskapliga forelasningar at Lund University from 1939 to 1941.
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Gunnar Jarring entered the Swedish diplomatic service and worked for the Swedish foreign service as attache at their embassy in Ankara in 1940.
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Gunnar Jarring was head of Department B at the Swedish legation in Tehran in 1941 and charge d'affaires ad interim in Tehran and Baghdad in 1945.
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Gunnar Jarring served as acting first legation secretary in 1945 and acting legation counselor and charge d'affaires ad interim in Addis Abeba in 1946.
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Gunnar Jarring was then Swedish envoy to India in 1948 and to Ceylon in 1950 as well as to Iran, Iraq and Pakistan in 1951.
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Gunnar Jarring served as director and head of the Political Department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm from 1952 to 1956 and as an expert in the United Nations General Assembly in 1955.
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Gunnar Jarring was ambassador to the United States from 1958 to 1964, and to the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1973, as well as Mongolia from 1965 to 1973.
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The role of mediator in the Middle East conflict made Gunnar Jarring decide not to give any interviews or comments, giving him the famous nickname "The Clam", sometimes even "The Super Clam".
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Gunnar Jarring continued to publish studies on Eastern Turkic languages throughout his diplomatic career and after retirement.
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Gunnar Jarring is one of the few people to ever be mentioned by name in a United Nations Security Council Resolution, appearing in Resolution 331.