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Carsten Høeg

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Danish classical scholar (1896-1961)

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Carsten Høeg was a Danish professor of classical philology and a Juris Doctor at the University of Copenhagen from 1926. D. with an ethnographic study of the Sarakatsani Greeks. He later published studies on classical Greek and Latin literature and on Byzantine music.

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1960honorary doctor of the University of Lille
Knight of the Legion of Honour
honorary doctor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
honorary doctor of the University of Athens
honorary doctor of the University of Aberdeen
commander of the Order of the Dannebrog

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Carsten Høeg was a Danish professor of classical philology and a Juris Doctor 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.

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deceased
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Lived 1896 to 1961 · aged 64
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