Carsten Høeg

Carsten Høeg (* November 15, 1896 in Aalborg, † April 3, 1961 in Copenhagen) was a Danish linguist and philologist Classic.

Carsten Høeg, son of the engineer Niels John Molt Høeg and his wife Laura Gilbertha, née Schou, was a student of the Cathedral School in Aalborg. In 1914 he began his studies of classical philology and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Johan Ludvig Heiberg among others, Anders Bjørn Drach man, Kristiansand field and Holger Pedersen. His interest in modern Greek following, he joined Hubert Pernot at the University of Paris. In 1922 he traveled to Greece and lived with the Karakatschanen, a nomadic people in Greece, whose dialect and musical- poetic tradition he studied. As a result, he presented the 1924 study Les Saracatsans, with whom he has a doctorate in 1925. He continued his studies on the Karakatschanen initially continued until 1926 he followed Drach man on the chair in Copenhagen a year.

Despite his tendency to Modern Greek, he developed a deep interest in ancient Greek, in particular in the Greek tragedy, and Byzantine music. In 1935 he became director of the Monumenta Musicae Edition Byzantinae whose foundation he had prepared together with Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard and Egon Wellesz since 1931. In addition, he dealt among other things with the Antigone of Sophocles and Plato's writings to whose translation into Danish he edited with. Nevertheless, he devoted half his work force employment with Latin philology. As a result, he published, among others, in 1942 an introduction to Cicero's work, in 1945, together with Paul V. Rubow a translation of Ovid's Fasti.

During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II Høeg was actively involved in the resistance and led a group of Danish Resistance Council ( Danmarks Frihedsråd ), whose task was to capture Danish Nazis and collaborators for later prosecution.

In addition to his research Høeg was involved in many national and international institutions. He was from 1949 to 1950 Vice-Rector of the University of Copenhagen. From 1948 to 1951 he was the first president after the war the newly launched Fédération Internationale des Associations d' Études Classiques, 1953-1955 President of the International Union Académique, finally, et 1955 to 1959 President of the Conseil International de la philosophy of Sciences Humaines.

For his scientific achievements him honorary doctorates from the Universities of Athens (1937 ), Aberdeen (1942 ) and Thessaloniki ( 1950) were awarded.

Carsten Høeg was commander of the Dannebrogordens was Dannebrog man and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

He was a member of several scientific academies, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences ( 1941), the Royal Scientific and Literary Society in Gothenburg (1952 ), the British Academy (1953), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (1955) and the Academy of Athens (1957).

Publications (selection)

• Les Saracatsans. Two volumes. Pio, Copenhagen 1925-26.
• En græsk Forretningsmand i 3 Aarhundrede. f Christ. Pio V., Copenhagen 1927.
• Introduction til Plautus. Jespersen & Pio, Copenhagen / Oslo 1931.
• La notation ekphonétique. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1935.
• Nutidens Grækenland above Antikken. P. Branner, Copenhagen 1936.
• Græsk music. P. Branner, Copenhagen 1940.
• Introduction til Cicero. Sansoni, Copenhagen 1942.
• Music og digtning i byzantinsk kristendom. Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1955.