Gösta Montell


Karl Gösta Montell was a Swedish ethnographer.

Life

Montell was born in Pajala, Sweden, on 7 November 1899. His research focused on Inner Mongolia, Outer Mongolia, and the Chinese Summer Palace at Chengde. He was a member of Sven Hedin's Sino-Swedish Expedition to Central Asia in 1929–1933, and the extensive ethnographic collection, which he acquired on behalf of Hedin is now housed in the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm. He subsequently became Director of the Asian Department of that museum. He died in Stockholm on 2 January 1975.

Selected publications