Anders Platou Wyller

Anders Platou Wyller (born April 24 1903 in Stavanger, died October 2. 1940 in Stockholm) was a Norwegian scientist in literature and a humanist. He married Anne-Marie Strindberg, daughter of the author August Strindberg and Harriet Bosse. They had a son named Jørgen.

Wyller was Associate Professor at the Sorbonne. He got his doctoral thesis in 1936 with "Paul Claudel. En kristen dikter og hans drama." Han created the Nansenskolen (Norwegian Humanist Academy) together with Kristian Schjelderup and Henriette Bie Lorentzen in 1937.

After Operation Weserübung, Nazi Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway on April 9, 1940, Wyller applied to work with the allied forces and was sent for North Norway working for the radio. When the cruiser Devonshire left Tromsø for England, Wyller was aboard with the Norwegian King Haakon VII of Norway, Olav V and several members of the Norwegian cabinet. He worked a short time for BBC in London before he was diagnosed with cancer. He was returned by airplane to Sweden where he met his family before he died on October 2.

He was leader of the Norwegian Student society in 1925.