[1] 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.
He wrote several books, including Norwegische Literatur (1927), Norsk litteraturhistorie til orientering og selvstudium (1933) and Henrik Wergeland.
In Bergen he was chair of Den Nationale Scene and praeces in the Selskapet til Videnskapenes Fremme.
[1] A festschrift planned for his seventieth birthday was instead released as a memorial book, titled Norsk og fremmed.