Kåre Johannes Langvik-Johannessen (10 April 1919 – 27 October 2014) was a Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator.

He was born in Onsøy as a son of manager Hans Johannessen (1889–1986) and Betzy Langvik (1887–1963). He finished his secondary education in 1939 in Fredrikstad, and during the Second World War he studied piano and organ, and took commerce school. He enrolled in Norwegian studies at the University of Oslo in 1946, and graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1948. The same year he travelled to the Hague to study Dutch language and literature. He took another degree at the University of Oslo in 1955 with the master's thesis Det bibelske drama i Nederlandene før Joost van den Vondel. In 1963 he took the dr.philos. degree on the topic Joost van den Vondel with the thesis Zwischen Himmel und Erde (1963).

He was a docent from 1965 and professor from 1972 until his retirement in 1989, both at the University of Oslo. He has also …Read more on Wikipedia