Background
She was born at Klippan in Scania, and after graduating from university at Helsingborg went to the University of Lund for graduate studies.
She was born at Klippan in Scania, and after graduating from university at Helsingborg went to the University of Lund for graduate studies.
There she obtained her Master of Science in chemistry and biology. The couple had three children, Susanna, Helena and Fredrik. She died in December 2009 at the age of 78.
At Lund, Gertrud Dahlgren pursued studies in systematic botany.
Henning Weimarck, who held the chair in Systematic Botany, had initiated a new line of research in the mid-1950s, the field of biosystematics, which was to become Gertrud Dahlgren"s chosen field, and to receive international attention. She was appointed to the position of Associate professor at Lund, and continued her work in biostematics, with especial interest in Ranunculus and Erodium, and editing a textbook on systematic botany, which was later translated into German.
In 1992 she was elected to the Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund (Royal Physiographic Society in Lund).