Sture Petrén

Bror Arvid Sture Petrén (3 October 1908, Stockholm – 13 December 1976, Geneva ) was a Swedish ambassador and civil servant.

He earned his cand.jur. degree from Lund University in 1930 and then worked at, among other places, the Svea Court of Appeal. In 1950, he became a foreign affairs counselor and head of the legal department at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He was appointed ambassador in 1957. From 1963 to 1967, he was the president of the Svea Court of Appeal.

Petrén was elected to the Swedish Academy on 6 March 1969, taking seat number 1 after Birger Ekeberg, and was inducted on 20 December the same year. In 1969, he also became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He was made a Knight of the Order of the Seraphim in 1972.