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Albert Cammermeyer (27 December 1838 – 18 February 1893) was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was a pioneer in Norwegian publishing and founder of Alb. Cammermeyers bokhandel og forlag (now Cappelen Damm).
''The History of Tanum'' (Cappelen Damm AS)
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Albert Cammermeyer (27 December 1838 – 18 February 1893) was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was a pioneer in Norwegian publishing and founder of Alb. Cammermeyers bokhandel og forlag (now Cappelen Damm).
Biography
Frederik Albert Cammermeyer was born inInnvik
Innvik is a former municipality in the old Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1965. Innvik is located in the present-day Stryn Municipality in Vestland county, encompassing about the western third of th ...
(now Stryn
Stryn is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Counties of Norway, county of Vestland, Norway. It is located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Nordfjord. The administrative center of the municipality is the vi ...
), in Sogn og Fjordane
Sogn og Fjordane (; literally "Parish and the Fjords") was a Counties of Norway, county in western Norway, from 1 January 1919 to 31 December 2019, after it was merged to become part of Vestland county. Bordering previous counties Møre og Romsda ...
county, Norway. He started at the bookstore os Harald Lyche in Drammen
Drammen () is a city and municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and villages such ...
(1854) and went to work for Jacob Dybwad in Christiania in 1862. He opened his own bookstore in 1867, later expanding into book publishing as well. In 1869, his enterprise became a supplier to the Parliamentary library. He chaired the Norwegian Booksellers Association
The Norwegian Booksellers Association () is a Norwegian interest group. Its purpose is "looking after the interests of the booksellers and working to strengthen the position of literature and books in society". It awards the annual Norwegian Book ...
from 1886 to 1891.Egil Tveterås
Egil Tveterås (4 November 1925 – 16 January 2021) was a Norwegian encyclopedist, publicist and literary historian.
Personal life and education
Born in Oslo on 4 November 1925, Tveterås was a son of Harald L. Tveterås. Thus painter Vil ...
.
He succeeded Magnus Feilberg, who had been one of the founders of the Association in 1851. After he became ill, he handed over bookstores to three of his employees in 1888. The bookstore and publishing house were sold in separate transactions to three of Cammermeyer's associates between 1888 and 1890. The publishing house was taken over by Lars Swanström in 1890. In 1965, the bookstore Cammermeyer founded was merged into the Norwegian bookstore chain owned by Johan Grundt Tanum.
Today, the publishing enterprise founded by Albert Cammermeyer is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Norwegian publishing company Cappelen Damm
Cappelen Damm AS is a Norwegian publisher established in 2007. The company is Norway's largest publishing company, publishing fiction and non-fiction works, including academic literature. It resulted from the merger of J.W. Cappelens Forlag, fou ...
, which was formed when the publishers JW Cappelen Publishing Co. and NW Damm & Søn AS in 2007.References
External links
Cappelen Damm official website
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