Anton Magnus Aure (15 January 1884 – 18 July 1924) was a Norwegian schoolteacher,

bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

and

book collector Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given collector. The love of books is ''bibliophilia'', and someo ...

Personal life

Aure was born in

Fræna Fræna is a former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It was part of the region of Romsdal. The municipality was located on the Romsdal peninsula surrounding the Frænfjorden, the eastern shore of the Julsundet strait, and include ...

to farmer Jakob Sivertson Aure and Beret Pedersdatter Orten. In 1911 he married Hallgerd Malmfrid Røsok (died 1913), and in 1918 he married Marta Johanne Aadna.

Career

Aure graduated as schoolteacher in 1911. Aside of his teaching job, he started to collect books written in

Nynorsk Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

. His extensive collection was basis for a bibliography of literature published in Nynorsk, and Aure was appointed

government scholar Government scholar (Norwegian, ''statsstipendiat'') is a position awarded by the Parliament of Norway upon the recommendation of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Research and funded directly over the State budget of Nor ...

in 1919. He started and edited the monthly magazine ''Ung-Norig'' in 1918. His publications include the poetry collection ''Lauv og lyng'' (1908), ''Kvinnor i den nynorske bokheimen'' (1916), ''Nynorsk boklista. Skrifter i bokform på norsk'' (two volumes, 1916 and 1921), ''Ungdom og bøker'' (1923), ''Norskt Bladmannalag gjenom 10 aar'' (1923, jointly with

Hans Aarnes Hans Aarnes (6 May 1886 – 25 October 1960) was a Norwegian entrepreneur, journalist, newspaper editor, magazine editor, publisher and proponent for the Nynorsk language. Early and personal life Aarnes was born in Vatne, Møre og Romsdal as ...

), and ''Prestar som talar nynorsk'' (1924). His collection of about 6,000 volumes was acquired by the publishing house

Det Norske Samlaget Det Norske Samlaget is a Norwegian publishing house founded on 24 March 1868 with the aim to promote and publish books in Landsmål, now known as Nynorsk. ''Det Norske Samlaget'' is now divided into two institutions: a literature organization, ''L ...

after his death, and eventually administered by the

National Library of Norway The National Library of Norway ( no, Nasjonalbiblioteket) was established in 1989. Its principal task is "to preserve the past for the future". The library is located both in Oslo and in Mo i Rana. The building in Oslo was restored and reopened i ...

. He died in

Asker Asker ( no, Asker), properly called Askerbygda in Norwegian, is a district and former Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus, Norway. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker, Viken (also known as Greate ...

in 1924.

References

1884 births 1924 deaths People from Fræna Norwegian schoolteachers Norwegian bibliographers Norwegian book and manuscript collectors Norwegian magazine editors Nynorsk-language writers {{norway-writer-stub