Carsten Høeg
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Carsten Høeg (November 15, 1896 in Aalborg - April 3, 1961) was a Danish professor of classic 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.
Høeg was awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Athens (1937), Aberdeen (1948) and Thessaloniki (1950).
[edit] Selected publications
- 1925 - Les Saracatsans I.
- 1942 - Introduktion til Cicero.
- 1953 - The oldest Slavonic tradition of Byzantine music.
