Carsten Høeg

Carsten Høeg (born November 15, 1896 in Aalborg ; died April 3, 1961 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish linguist and classical philologist .

Carsten Høeg, son of the engineer Niels Johannes Molt Høeg and his wife Laura Gilbertha, née Schou, was a student at the cathedral school in Aalborg. In 1914 he began studying Classical Philology and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen , with Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Anders Bjørn Drachmann , Kristian Sandfeld and Holger Pedersen , among others . Following his interest in modern Greek , he switched to Hubert Pernot at the University of Paris . In 1922 he traveled to Greece and lived with the Sarakatsans , a nomadic people in Greece, whose dialect and musical-poetic tradition he studied. As a result, he presented the study Les Saracatsans in 1924 , with which he received his doctorate in 1925 . He initially continued his studies of the Sarakatsans until he followed Drachmann to the chair in Copenhagen in 1926.

Regardless of his inclination to modern Greek, he developed a profound interest in ancient Greek , in particular in Greek tragedy , and in Byzantine music. In 1935 he became the director of the Edition Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae , the establishment of which he had prepared together with Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard (1881–1968) and Egon Wellesz since 1931. In addition, he dealt with, among other things, the Antigone of Sophocles and the writings of Plato , whose translation into Danish he edited with. Nonetheless, he devoted half of his workforce to studying Latin philology. As a result he published, among other things, an introduction to Cicero's work in 1942 , and 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 the Danish Resistance Council ( Danmarks Frihedsråd ), whose task it was to capture Danish Nazis and collaborators for later prosecution.

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

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

Carsten Høeg was commander of the Dannebrog Order , was a Dannebrog man and knight of the Legion of Honor .

He was a member of numerous academic academies, such as the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences (1941), the Royal Science and Literature 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. V. Pio, Copenhagen 1927.
• Introduction to Plautus. Jespersen & Pio, Copenhagen / Oslo 1931.
• La notation ekphonétique. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1935.
• Nutidens Grækenland og Antikken. P. Branner, Copenhagen 1936.
• Græsk music. P. Branner, Copenhagen 1940.
• Introduction to Cicero. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1942.
• Music og digtning i byzantinsk kristendom. Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1955.

literature

• Jørgen Raasted in: Acta musicologica. Vol. 33, Issue 2, 1961, pp. 64-67.
• Holger Friis Johansen in: Classica et mediaevalia. Vol. 20, 1962 pp. 222-226.
• Eli Fischer-Jørgensen , Jens Ege: Interneringskartoteket: Om Carsten Høeg and hans group under besættelsen. Tusculanums Forlag Museum, Copenhagen 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carsten Høeg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dansk biografisk leksikon : Carsten Høeg (accessed on February 21, 2014)
• Høeg, Carsten .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .