Christian Tønsberg
Nils Christian Tønsberg (7 December 1813 – 6 February 1897) was a Norwegian publisher and author. Christian Tønsberg became one of the larger Norwegian publishers and was best known for illustrated books about Norway.[1]
Background
Nils Christian Tønsberg was born in
Career
Tønsberg was employed as clerk in the Treasury Department, working in the office of several Supreme Court lawyers. Tønsberg also served as consul for several countries: Kingdom of Bavaria, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg, Colombia, Liberia and Romania. Additionally he managed estates, auction and estate sales.
When the publishing company of Guldberg & Dzwonkowski was dissolved in 1844, Tønsberg assumed a large part of the publisher's legal literature. Tønsberg had met
Tønsberg became strongly influenced by the National Romantic period and was eager to establish a co-operation between the different art forms. The illustrations were drawn by some of the most famous of Norwegian artists including Peter Christen Asbjørnsen among others. Tønsberg continued publishing similar books over the next years. He gathered and published the material in Norge fremstillet i Tegninger with Asbjørnsen in 1848. Tønsberg also published Bondeliv i Norge by Peter Andreas Munch and illustrated by Adolph Tidemand and Udvalgte Norske Nationaldragter illustrated by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg in 1861. Tønsberg continued with a limited publishing until 1891, by which time he was almost blind.[5] [6] [7] [8]
Personal life
In 1835, he married Maren Dorthea Bødtker (1813-1893). He died 1897 in during Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.
Selected works
- Norge fremstillet i Tegninger (1848)
- Christiania og Omegn (1850)
- Norske Nationaldragter (1852)
- Berømte Nordmænd (1853–56)
- Norske Folkelivsbilleder (1854)
- Bondeliv i Norge (1861)
- Udvalgte norske Nationaldragter (1861)
- Norske Kunstner-Album (1873)
- Billeder af Norges Natur og Folkeliv (1875)
- Norsk Portræt-Galleri (1877)
- En Brudefærd i Hardanger (1879)
Picture from Norge fremstillet i Tegninger
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BergenJohan Christian Clausen Dahl
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Nordangfjorden
Joachim Frich -
Bære og merking av polene
Johan Fredrik Eckersberg -
Parti af Moldefjord
Georg Saal -
En Aften ved Sæteren
Knud Bergslien -
Hjemreisen fra Kirken
Adolph Tidemand
References
- ^ Norge fremstillet i Tegninger and Christian Tønsberg Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Christian Tønsberg". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ Hallgeir Elstad. "Carl August Guldberg". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ "Adam Dzwonkowski". Opplandsarkivet avd. Maihaugen. Archived from the original on 2017-08-25. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ "Bondeliv i Norge". Nasjonalbiblioteket. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ "Norge fremstillet i tegninger". runeberg.org. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ "Udvalgte Norske Nationaldragter (1861) by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg". 1861. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
- ^ Egil Tveterås. Christian Tønsberg – forlegger Norsk biografisk leksikon