Lennart Nylander

Karl Lennart Hjalmar Nylander (4 September 1901 – 15 July 1966) was a Swedish diplomat.

Early life Nylander was born on 4 September 1901 in Edefors, Sweden, the son of Emil Nyland, a physician, and his wife Hedvig von Post. He passed studentexamen in Växjö in 1920 and received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1925 and a bachelor's degree in 1928. Nylander was Grand Marshal (Övermarskalk) at the university's 450th anniversary in 1927.

Career Nylander became an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm in 1928 and served at the Swedish Consulate General in New York City the same year. Nylander then served as an attaché in Bern in 1930 and as second secretary at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm in 1933.

Nylander was a board member of the Chesapeake Corp of Virginia, of the Swedish Seamen's Welfare Fund, Inc. (chairman from 1947), and the Seamen of Sweden, Inc. (chairman from 1949) in New York City. He was also an honorary member of the American Swedish Historical Foundation. Nylander was an honorary doctor of the Bard College in New York and Upsala College in New Jersey.

Death Nylander died of a stroke on 15 July 1966 at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States.

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Swedish

Foreign