Stig Roth

Stig Adolf Roth (28 March 1900 – 20 August 1972) was a Swedish art historian, museum curator, and museum director.

Early life Roth was born in Malmö, Sweden, the son of the dentist Adolf Roth and his wife Kjersti Davida Svensson. He passed studentexamen in Malmö in 1918 and was an assistant during the excavations in Gamla Lödöse in 1917 and in 1919 and he became an extraordinary curator assistant at the Gothenburg Museum in Gothenburg the same year. Roth obtained a Bachelor of Arts (fil.kand.) degree in Gothenburg in 1921 During World War II, Roth was chief of C-byrån's Gothenburg Group.

He was secretary and curator of Gothenburg's Art Association (Göteborgs konstförening) in 1933 and was a board member of the City Council Natural and Cultural Protection Preparation (Stadsfullmäktiges natur- och kulturskyddsberedning) from 1935 to 1964. Roth was a board member of the Bildtska hembygdsmuseet from 1935, of the Heritage Council in Gothenburg and Bohus County (Kulturminnesrådet i Göteborgs och Bohus län) from 1935, of the Kulturminnesföreningen Gathenhielm from 1937 to 1964, of the City Library Board (Stadsbiblioteksstyrelsen) from 1943, of the Swedish Archaeological Society (Svenska arkeologiska samfundet) from 1947, of the Gunnebos styrelse from 1949 and of the Felix Lindberg's Endowment Fund (Felix Lindbergs donationsfond) from 1951.

Awards and decorations

City of Gothenburg's Badge of Merit in Gold (Göteborgs stads förtjänsttecken i guld)

Norwegian medal for personnel who participated in Norway's struggle for freedom