
Asbjørn Aarnes was a Norwegian professor and literary historian.

Cathrinus Dorotheus Olivius Bang was a Norwegian literary historian and professor of Scandinavian literature at the University of Christiania.

Edvard Freydar Beyer was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, and professor at the University of Oslo from 1958 to 1990.

Christopher Brinchmann was a Norwegian archivist, literary historian and critic.

Francis Bull was a Norwegian literary historian, professor at the University of Oslo for more than thirty years, essayist and speaker, and magazine editor.

Christen Christian Dreyer Collin was a Norwegian literary historian.

Kristian Elster was a Norwegian novelist, literary historian, theatre critic, and biographer.

Gerhard von der Lippe Gran was a Norwegian literary historian, professor, magazine editor, essayist and biographer.

Jørgen Haave is a Norwegian literary scholar and the senior curator and director of the Henrik Ibsen Museum in Skien. He is especially known for his Ibsen biography, Familien Ibsen (2017), and is one of the foremost contemporary Ibsen scholars; alongside Jon Nygaard he has been central in a scholarly reassessment of older myths pertaining to Ibsen's background and childhood, and their influence upon his work. He has also written books about Peter Wessel Zapffe. He was appointed as director of Henrik Ibsen Museum in 2008. He was awarded the second prize of the Hjernekraft prize of the Norwegian Association of Researchers in 2017 for his work on Ibsen.

Rudolf Keyser was a Norwegian historian, archaeologist and educator.

Geir Kjetsaa was a Norwegian professor in Russian literary history at the University of Oslo, translator of Russian literature, and author of several biographies of classical Russian writers.

Hartvig Marcus Lassen was a Norwegian editor, educator and literary historian.

Peter Andreas Munch, usually known as P. A. Munch, was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway. Munch's scholarship included Norwegian archaeology, geography, ethnography, linguistics, and jurisprudence. He was also noted for his Norse legendary saga translations.

Martin Gunnar Nag was a Norwegian literary historian, literary critic, poet, essayist, translator and biographer. He was born in Stavanger.

Johan Fredrik Paasche was a Norwegian educator, author and literary historian.

Ola Raknes was a Norwegian psychologist, philologist and non-fiction writer. Born in Bergen, Norway, he was internationally known as a psychoanalyst in the Reichian tradition. He has been described as someone who spent his entire life working with the conveying of ideas through many languages and between different epistemological systems of reference, science and religion. For large portions of his life he was actively contributing to the public discourse in Norway. He has also been credited for his contributions to strengthening and enriching the Nynorsk language and its use in the public sphere.

Olaf Skavlan was a Norwegian literary historian and playwright.

Andreas Hofgaard Winsnes was a Norwegian literary historian and educator.