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Hedvig Lovén (1867-unknown) was a botanist who studied plant respiration.

Life
Lovén was born on 13 December 1867 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father, Otto Christian Lovén, was a physiologist at the Karolinska Institute; her mother, Elisabeth Johanna Emilia Lovén (née von Julin) was from Finland. In 1892, she married Carl Gustav Santesson, a pharmacologist and professor of medicine at the Karolinska Institute.

Scientific Career
Matriculating in 1885, Lovén began to publish papers in 1888; she completed three, all concerning plant respiration, before 1895.