Helge Otto Aars Groth (28 August 1913 – 1966) was a Norwegian literary historian and diplomat. He was born in

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

, and took the cand.philol. degree in 1938. He was a lecturer in European literature at the

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from 1939 to 1953, and also as held lectures on foreign affairs in

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radio from 1946 to 1953. Books include ''Hovedlinjer i mellomkrigstidens norske litteratur'' (1947) and ''Olav Aukrust, Problematikk og utvikling'' (1948). He was then hired as a press and culture envoy at the Norwegian embassy in

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in 1953, and was promoted to embassy counsellor in 1957. He was an assistant secretary in the

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from 1962 to 1964, then a press counsellor at the Norwegian embassy in the United States from 1964 to 1966, the year he died.

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