Iran to honor Swedish geographer Sven Hedin

Iran is set to hold a ceremony in commemoration of Swedish geographer and explorer Sven Hedin.

Iran’ cultural attaché in Stockholm announced the news in a meeting with head of the Sven Hedin Foundation HakanWahlquist.

“Iran’s cultural attaché office in Sweden has tried to boost cultural cooperation between the two countries in recent years and is therefore planning to hold a commemoration ceremony to honor the 150th birth anniversary of the Swedish geographer Sven Hedin in Iran,” said Amir-Mohammad Haji-Yousefi during the meeting.

Haji-Yousefia dded that the ceremony is scheduled to be held in October 2015. He also announced plans for a two-day cultural event in Sweden to introduce the locations visited by Hedin during his visits to Iran early next year.

Sven Hedin spent almost 20 years on the Asian soil, carrying out or leading expeditions into different regions of the continent.

Although Hedin never held any official or academic position. He was considered an expert on Iran by the mid-1880s.

He climbed and closely studied Mount Damavand, and mapped the great basins of Iran’s eastern areas with all their salt lakes and deserts.

Hedin’s scientific and financial estate was bequeathed to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the name of the Sven Hedin Foundation.

The estate is administered by the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, which, together with the city’s Museum of Natural History houses most of his ethnographic, archeological and natural science collections.

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