Carsten Høeg (15 November 1896 in

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– 3 April 1961) was a Danish professor of

classical philology Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

and a

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at the

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from 1926. He earned his Ph.D. with an ethnographic study of the

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. 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

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from 1940–1945, he was the leader of a resistance group within the

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, 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoeg, Carsten 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 Danish linguists Corresponding fellows of the British Academy