Einar Musæus Høigård (18 October 1907 – 25 November 1943) was a Norwegian educator and øigåcivil resistance member.

Biography

Høigård was born in Stavanger, the son of Jonas Bernhard Høigård and Caroline Hansine Musæus. Among his works is a dissertation on Henrik Anker Bjerregaard from 1934 and a monograph on the history of Oslo Cathedral School from 1942. During the German occupation of Norway he played a central role in the teachers' resistance against Nazification of schools and youth organizations. He was arrested in 1943 during an escape attempt to Sweden, tortured by the Gestapo and committed suicide during interrogation.

Einar Høigård

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1907 births

1943 suicides

1943 deaths

People from Stavanger

Norwegian schoolteachers

Oslo Cathedral School faculty

Norwegian librarians

Norwegian educationalists

Academic staff of the University of Oslo

Norwegian resistance members

Bredtveit concentration camp prisoners

Suicides by jumping in Norway

People who died by suicide in prison custody

Prisoners who died in German detention

Norwegian people who died in prison custody

Einar Høigård