Education
University of Copenhagen.
ambassador Diplomat politician
University of Copenhagen.
In 1939 she became Denmark"s first female film censor. In 1946 she became chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Begtrup was vice chairman of the committee that negotiated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
She was appointed Envoy to Iceland in 1949, and became Denmark"s first female ambassador, when in 1955 she was appointed ambassador to Iceland.
In 1929, she became a member of the board of Kvinderådet, in 1931, she was elected vice-president, and in the period 1946-1949 she was president After the war she became a member of the Danish delegation to the United Nations General Assembly.
