Ragnar Julius Numelin (28 September 1890

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

– 12 October 1972

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) was a Finnish diplomat and a non-fiction writer.

Personal life

Numelin's parents were the Senator Gustaf Julius Ferdinand Nummelin and Anna Emelie Sourander. He graduated in 1911 as secondary school graduate and graduated as a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1913 and Licentiate in 1919. He studied under

Edward Westermarck Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 in Helsinki – 3 September 1939 in Tenala) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. Biography Westermarck was born in 1862 in a w ...

Career

Numelin was assistant in the University of Helsinki Library from 1914 to 1918 and served in the

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for 35 years from 1918 and served as Consul General in

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1945–1947, as Envoy in

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from 1947 to 1950 and in

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and in

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in 1950–1953. Numelin published studies in the areas of diplomacy, sociology, ethnology, geography and graphology. He authored the 1950 book ''The Beginnings of Diplomacy''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Numelin, Ragnar 20th-century Finnish diplomats 1890 births 1972 deaths Writers from Turku