Anthon Bang (
Copenhagen
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, 9 December 1809 –
Christiania (now Oslo), 31 July 1870) was a
Danish
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Norwegian writer and publisher.
He was born in
Copenhagen
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(
Denmark
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), and grew up in
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...
in central Norway. He was the grandson of
Carsten Gerhard Bang
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, manager of the
Røros Copper Works
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.
He was educated as a military officer, but ended his military career in 1844 due to illness. From then on he lived as a publicist, wrote books and edited several magazines and newspapers. From 1860 to 1866 he published the weekly magazine ''
Lørdags-Aftenblad for Arbeidsklassen'' in
Christiania, and established the newspaper ''
Dagbladet
''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...
'' in 1869.
References
1809 births
1870 deaths
People from Trondheim
Norwegian Army personnel
Norwegian newspaper editors
Norwegian magazine editors
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