Anton Wilhelm Brøgger was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 book printer.

Personal life

Brøgger was born to Niels Christian Brøgger (1783–1827) and Frideriche Bader (1791–1864) in Kristiansand, Aust-Agder

Aust-Agder

is a county in Norway, bordering Telemark, Rogaland, and Vest-Agder. In 2002, there were 102,945 inhabitants, which is 2.2% of the total population in Norway. Its area is . The administrative center of the county is in Arendal....

. His only brother was Christian Fredrik Brøgger (1814–74). In 1848, Brøgger married Oline Marie Bjerring (1826–1905), with whom he had a son, Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (1851–1940). Waldemar Christofer gave birth to Anton Wilhelm Brøgger (1851–1940) whose son, Waldemar Christofer Brøgger

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger (writer)

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, translator and editor.-Personal life:He was born in Stavanger as a son of Anton Wilhelm Brøgger and Inger Ursin...

 (1911–91), was named after his grandfather.

Career

In 1827, Brøgger's family moved to Christiania

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. His father died the same year. At the age of 16, Brøgger became an apprentice at the publishing company Guldberg & Dzwonkowski. In 1842, he finished his apprenticeship and became a factor

Factor (agent)

A factor, from the Latin "he who does" , is a person who professionally acts as the representative of another individual or other legal entity, historically with his seat at a factory , notably in the following contexts:-Mercantile factor:In a relatively large company, there could be a hierarchy,...

 at the concern run by the Wulfsberg printing and bookselling

Bookselling

Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers or bookmen.-Bookstores today:...

 family.

In 1851, he rented the premises

Premises

Premises are land and buildings together considered as a property. This usage arose from property owners finding the word in their title deeds, where it originally correctly meant "the aforementioned; what this document is about", from Latin prae-missus = "placed before".In this sense, the word is...

 of Guldberg & Dzwonkowski and started his own printing house, A. W. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri. The following year, Brøgger started a partnership with typographer Johan Arnoldus von Westen Sylow Koren Christie (1821–92). From 1851 to 1866, A. W. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri published the gazette

Gazette

A gazette is a public journal, a newspaper of record, or simply a newspaper.In English- and French-speaking countries, newspaper publishers have applied the name Gazette since the 17th century; today, numerous weekly and daily newspapers bear the name The Gazette.Gazette is a loanword from the...

 Illustreret Nyhetsblad. Among its contributors were Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore...

, P. A. Munch, Andreas Munch

Andreas Munch

Andreas Munch was a Norwegian poet, novelist, playwright and newspaper editor. He was the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway.-Personal life:...

, Jørgen Moe

Jørgen Moe

right|thumb|Norske Folkeeventyr Asbjørnsen and Moe Jørgen Engebretsen Moe was a Norwegian bishop and author...

 and Ole Vig

Ole Vig

Ole Vig was a Norwegian teacher, poet, non-fiction writer, magazine editor and proponent for public education. He edited the magazine Folkevennen from 1851, published the poetry collection Norske Bondeblomster in 1851, and the history book Norges historie indtil Harald Haarfagre in 1857...

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The daily newspaper Christiania-Posten

Christiania-Posten

Christiania-Posten was a short-lived newspaper in Oslo, Norway.It was established on 17 May 1848 by Carl Arntzen and Ludvig Vibe, who both edited it until 1853. Ludvig Kristensen Daa then took over, and the newspaper's allegiance subsequently changed from conservative to liberal...

was printed by Brøgger's printing house. In 1860, A. W. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri printed the yearbooks of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway.-History:The University of Oslo was established in 1811. The idea of a learned society in Christiania surfaced for the first time in 1841. The city of Throndhjem had no university, but had a learned...

. It also published several Norwegian academic and scientific publications and, in 1863, textbooks for Jørgen Wright Cappelen

Jørgen Wright Cappelen

-Personal life:Jørgen Wright Cappelen was born in Porsgrund in 1805 as the ninth and last child of ship-owner Ulrich Fredrich von Cappelen and his wife Benedicte Henrikke, née Aall . His maternal grandfather was Nicolai Benjamin Aall, and as such his group of uncles included Constitutional...

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Christie left the printing house in 1872. When Brøgger died ten years later, his wife took over the business. After her death in 1905, her son Waldemar Christofer and his wife Thora Brøgger continued to run it. The printing house ceased operations in 1981.