Gerda Cederblom1867 - 1931 Ethnologist, author, museum employee
Gerda Cederblom was an ethnologist and a museum worker. She wrote a number of books and articles, primarily on Swedish folk customs, dress, and handicrafts.
Gerda Cederblom was born in Malmö in 1867. She was the daughter of Augusta Oterdahl and Professor Johan Erik Cederblom. Gerda Cederblom had three sisters and a brother. One of her sisters was the sexologist Elin Cederblom. The adventurer and textile artist Aina Cederblom was her niece.
Gerda Cederblom gained her school-leaving certificate from the private high school called Lyceum för flickor (girls’ school) in Stockholm. She then attended Tekniska skolan (now Konstfack, college of arts, crafts, and design). In 1894 she was appointed to the post of assistant at the ethnography department of Naturhistoriska riksmuseet (national museum of natural history), where she worked until 1900. At that point she took a job as an assistant at Nordiska museet where she remained until she retired in 1929. There she undertook comprehensive efforts in educating the public and as a writer. From 1914 onwards Gerda Cederblom was in charge of the museum’s major collection of Swedish national dress, all 30,000 pieces of which she also catalogued. Source: Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon.