Harald Burger

Harald Burger (born 1940 in Duisburg) is a Swiss-German linguist.

He received his Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of Zurich.

(His dissertation Belisarius: Edition und Versuch einer Deutung is a study about the baroque author Jacob Bidermann).

In 1975 Burger was appointed full professor of Germanic philology.

In 1990 Harald Burger was naturalized in Switzerland.