Carsten Høeg (15 November 1896 in
Aalborg
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– 3 April 1961) was a
Danish professor of
classical philology and a
Juris Doctor
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at the
University of Copenhagen from 1926. He earned his Ph.D. with an ethnographic study of the
Sarakatsani Greeks. He later published studies on classical Greek and Latin literature and on Byzantine music. From 1935 he was the founding director of the edition series ''Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae''. During the
German occupation of Denmark from 1940–1945, he was the leader of a resistance group within the
Danish Freedom Council, whose task was assembling the list of Danish Nazis and Nazi collaborators to be prosecuted after the liberation.
Høeg was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Athens (1937), Aberdeen (1948) and Thessaloniki (1950).
Selected publications
*1925 – ''Les Saracatsans I.''
*1942 – ''Introduktion til Cicero.''
*1953 – ''The oldest Slavonic tradition of Byzantine music.''
External links
Short CV and biographical references (in Danish)Το Βήμα Online: Για βοσκούς και χρυσά πορτοκάλια
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1896 births
1961 deaths
Linguists from Denmark
Danish classical scholars
Historical linguists
Danish resistance members
Scholars of ancient Greek literature
Scholars of Latin literature
20th-century linguists
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy