Per Wendelbo.
Per Wendelbo (5 September 1866 – 26 February 1937) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.
He was born as Peder Haraldsen in
Skien Skien () is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. In modern times it is regarded as part of the traditional region of Grenland, although historically it belonged to Grenmar/Skiensfjorden, while Grenland referred the ...
as a son of Peder Haraldsen, Sr. (1813–1887) og Caroline Mathilde Pedersen (1828–1907). In May 1890 in
Kalmar
Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...
he married Swedish citizen Ellen Lindquist (1865–1952).
He took the
cand.jur. degree in 1889. He edited the weekly magazine ''Norske Gutter'' from 1897 to 1917, was the foreign affairs editor in ''
Morgenbladet
''Morgenbladet'' is a Norwegian weekly, newspaper, covering politics, culture and science.
History
''Morgenbladet'' was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavi ...
'' from 1900 to 1918, then editor and chief administrative officer of the
Norwegian News Agency
The Norwegian News Agency ( no, Norsk Telegrambyrå; abbreviated NTB) is a Norwegian press agency and wire service that serves most of the largest Norwegian media outlets. The agency is located in Oslo and has bureaus in Brussels in Belgium and T ...
from 1918 to 1937. He also chaired the
Norwegian Press Association
The Norwegian Press Association ( no, Norsk Presseforbund, NP) is Norwegian association established in 1910, for press people with journalism as their main profession. Among its members are the Norwegian Union of Journalists, the Association of Nor ...
from 1916 to 1919 and 1921 to 1923.
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1866 births
1937 deaths
People from Skien
Norwegian magazine editors
Norwegian newspaper editors
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