Ove Guldberg Høegh

Ove Guldberg Høegh (23 April 1814 – 7 February 1863) was a Norwegian physician and politician.

He was born in Grue as a son of Dines Guldberg Høegh and Pauline Lovise Juell.

Høegh also produced the statistics Beretninger om den spedalske Sygdom every year from 1855 through 1861.

[1] The press at the time also credited him with spreading basic hygiene to coastal Norway, making the people "reap the first rewards of civilization".

[3] Høegh was married twice, first to Anne Sophie Schelderup and secondly to Ingeborg Anna Dons.