Statsborgeren Explained

Image Alt:	Cover page of the magazine
Category:	Political magazine
Founder:	Peder Soelvold
Founded:	1831
Finaldate:	1837
Country:	Norway
Based:	Oslo
Language:	Norwegian

Statsborgeren (Norwegian: The Citizen) was a political magazine which was published in Oslo in the period 1831–1937. It was one of the opposition publications.

History and profile

Statsborgeren was founded by Peder Soelvold^[1] in 1831.^[2] The editor of the paper was also Peder Soelvold between 1831 and 1835.^[3] The magazine criticized the government, ruling bureaucracy and fought for the rights of farmers.^{[1] [4]} Due to tensions with the government Peder Soelvold had to resign from the post, and Henrik Wergeland replaced him as the editor of Statsborgeren.^{[1] [5]} Wergeland edited the magazine until 1937 when it folded.^[1]

Notes and References

1. News: Øyvind Andresen. Fædrelandsvennens første redaktør. 15 December 2021. Argument. 5 January 2021. no. https://web.archive.org/web/20210118200607/https://www.argumentagder.no/post/f%C3%A6drelandsvennens-f%C3%B8rste-redakt%C3%B8r. 18 January 2021.
2. Øivind Larsen. Magne Nylenna. Frederik Holst som redaktør. Michael. 2017. 14. 4. 327. 10852/64685. no.
3. Kristian Nymark. Om Klapper-Slanger og statsborgerlige Skrighalse: Embetsmennene og den nye politiske offentligheten etter 1814. Heimen. 2018. 22. 4. no. 10.18261/issn.1894-3195. free. 11250/2576532. free.
4. Henrik G. Bastiansen. Henrik G. Bastiansen. Rethinking Mass Communications in Norway. Nordicom Review. 2014. 35. 2. 45. 10.2478/nor-2014-0021. 238992130 . free.
5. Theodore Jorgenson. Book review. Journal of English and Germanic Philology. April 1960. 59. 2. 329. 27707475.