Gösta Montell
Karl Gösta Montell (1899–1975) 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 (Jehol). 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 (Statens etnografiska museum) in Stockholm. He subsequently became Director of the Asian Department of that museum. He died in Stockholm on 2 January 1975.