Stavanger Avis Explained

Stavanger Avis was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Stavanger in Rogaland county. Its allegiance was Liberal.

Stavanger Avis was started in 1888 as Rogalands Folkeblad, its name changed in 1889.[1] The first editors were Oddmund Vik[2] and Alexander Kielland.[3] In 1899 the newspaper absorbed a competitor, Stavangeren.[1]

Vik left the position as chief editor in 1908.[2] The new editor, Lars Kleiveland took a stance against temperance and prohibition. The populace did not take kindly to this,[4] and Stavanger Avis went defunct in 1911,[1] survived by a competing Liberal newspaper Stavanger Aftenblad[4] which still exists.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.willyslekt.no/artikkel/5019.html List of historical newspapers
  2. http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=13117 Oddmund Vik
  3. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kielland/slekt/per00049.htm#0 Alexander Kielland biography
  4. http://www.historier.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2392&Itemid=86 Excerpt from the book Byen og menneskene, by Theodor Dahl (1947).