Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting
Hjalmar Branting
16th Prime Minister of Sweden
In office 10 March 1920 – 27 October 1920
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Nils Edén
Succeeded by	Louis De Geer
In office 13 October 1921 – 19 April 1923
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Oscar von Sydow
Succeeded by	Ernst Trygger
In office 18 October 1924 – 24 January 1925
Monarch	Gustaf V
Preceded by	Ernst Trygger
Succeeded by	Rickard Sandler
Personal details
Born	(1860-11-23)23 November 1860
Died	24 February 1925(1925-02-24) (aged 64) Stockholm
Political party	Social Democrats
Spouse(s)	Anna Branting (née Jäderin)
Religion	Lutheran
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 Karl Hjalmar Branting  (23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925) was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party (1907–1925), and Prime Minister during three separate periods (1920, 1921–1923, and 1924–1925). When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden. When he took office for a second term after the general election of 1921, he became the first socialist politician in Europe to do so following elections with universal suffrage. In 1921, Sweden's Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting shared the Nobel Peace Prize with the Norwegian secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; Christian Lange.

He was born to the professor Lars Gabriel Branting and the noblewoman and pianist Emma af Georgii. Branting was educated in and at Uppsala University. He developed a scientific background in mathematical astronomy and was an assistant at the , but gave up his devotion to scientific work to become a journalist in 1884 and began editing the newspapers Tiden and Social-Demokraten. His decision to publish an article by the more radical socialist Axel Danielsson - a piece denounced by opponents as insulting to religious sensitivities - resulted in political convictions for blasphemy and imprisonment for both men. Branting was imprisoned for three months in 1888.