Ove Fredrik Arbo Høeg (25 November 1898 – 7 July 1993) was a Norwegian

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Personal life

Høeg was born in

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as a son of

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Thomas Arbo Høeg (1852–1930) and Sigrid Bugge (1862–1945). His first marriage was to physician's daughter Elisabeth Cathrine Blom (1898–1927) from July 1923. After her death Høeg married dean's daughter Ellen Susanne Fridrichsen (1900–1955) in April 1934. During this marriage he was a brother-in-law of Anton Fridrichsen. After his second wife's death, Høeg married Hjørdis Holm (1908–1992) in 1962.

Career

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his secondary education in 1917 and graduated with the

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degree from the

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in 1923. He served as a professor at the

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from 1947 to 1967. His research interests focused on

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, and his dr.philos. thesis from 1942 was on

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flora of the

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ian period. He studied

plant fossil Paleobotany, which is also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeogr ...

s from other geographical areas as well, such as Canada, Russia, Africa and Himalaya. Among his later works are ''Planter og tradisjon'' from 1974, and a book on children's traditional playing with plant materials, ''Barkebåt og kongleku'', published in 1991. Høeg was a fellow of the

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from 1927 and the

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from 1941, and was an honorary member of the International Organization of Palaeobotany, Friends of the Earth Norway and the

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. The

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was bestowed upon him in 1973.

Legacy

The valley of Høegdalen in

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is named after him, as well as the river of Høegelva and the glaciers of Høegdalsbreen and

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoeg, Ove Arbo 1898 births 1993 deaths People from Larvik 20th-century Norwegian botanists Paleobotanists Norwegian paleontologists University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian non-fiction writers Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 20th-century non-fiction writers