Harald Beyer

Carl Harald Beyer (15 November 1891 – 26 July 1960) was a Norwegian literary historian and lecturer, literary critic, textbook writer and professor of European literature at the University of Bergen.

Early and personal life Beyer was born in Bergen, as a son of bookseller Freydar Dekke Høegh von Krogh Beyer (1864–1933) and his German-born wife Flora Charlotte Müller (1862–1912). He was grandson of bookbinder Fredrik Beyer (1827–1903). He married Eidis Johannessen in 1919, and was the father of literary historian Edvard Beyer.

Career Beyer finished his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1910, and took his final university degree in 1917, in language history. He received Hartvig Lassen's gold medal for his dissertation Henrik Wergeland og Henrich Steffens in 1919. His work Nietzsche og Norden (two volumes) came in 1958 and 1959.

Beyer was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1946. In Bergen he was chair of Den Nationale Scene and in the Selskapet til Videnskapenes Fremme. He died in July 1960 in Bergen.