About Ove Guldberg Høegh
Lived 1814 – 1863 (aged 48). Ove Guldberg Høegh was a Norwegian physician and politician.
Ove Guldberg Høegh (23 April 1814 – 7 February 1863) was a Norwegian medical doctor and politician.
He was born in Grue as a son of Dines Guldberg Høegh and Pauline Lovise Juell. He was a half-brother of architect Ole Peter Riis Høegh. Høegh finished his secondary education in Skien in 1833 and graduated with the cand.med. degree in 1840. Both during and after his medical education he was a physician in Lofoten and Salten, continuing as a private physician in Lødingen Municipality from 1841 and Alta Municipality from 1843. In 1845 he became district physician on the island of Senja, residing in Trondenes Municipality.
Høegh was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Finmarkens amt in 1850 and 1853.
Høegh also served as mayor of Trondhjem in 1862. He desired to return to Parliament to pursue further advancements against the leprous disease. He then became a deputy representative from Trondhjem og Levanger in 1859 and lastly full representative again in 1862. Shortly after commencing his last term, he died at Rikshospitalet. Morgenbladet gave the cause of death as typhoid.
Høegh was married twice, first to Anne Sophie Schelderup and secondly to Ingeborg Anna Dons. During his second marriage, he was a son-in-law of politician Nicolai Normann Dons.
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Norwegian physician (1814-1863)
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Ove Guldberg Høegh was born on 23 April 1814 in Grue Municipality.
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Ove Guldberg Høegh died on 7 February 1863 in Oslo.
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