Bjarte Birkeland

Bjarte Birkeland ( born December 26, 1920 in Fana, Norway, † 2000) was a Norwegian literary historian.

Life

Birkeland was the son of Martin Birkeland, a folk high school teachers, and Målfrid Skard. He studied from 1940 to 1948 and then became a teacher in Askim and from 1953 at the Country School Eidsvoll. In 1962 he received his doctorate and was appointed Professor of Nordic literature history at the University of Bergen in 1969. He worked there until 1984. Since 1975 he is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences.

Work

Birkeland's research focused primarily on literature in Nynorsk. 1950 and 1976 he published writings about Olav Duun, in his doctoral thesis dealt with by Sivle. Birkeland was also one of the authors of litteraturhistorie Norsk (Norwegian literary history ), which was published in four volumes in 1975, and also published in 1975 the book Nazismen og norsk litteratur ( Nazism and Norwegian literature).

From 1960 to 1968 Birkeland editor of the magazine Syn og was Segn.