Ditmar Meidell, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ditmar Meidell

Norwegian newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 24-Jan-1826

Date of Death: 13-Jul-1900

Profession: librarian, contributing editor, opinion journalist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ditmar Meidell

  • Ditmar Meidell (24 January 1826 – 13 July 1900) is a Norwegian magazine and newspaper editor. He was born in Bergen as a son of Lieutenant Colonel and customs inspector Christopher Pritzier Meidell (1783–1851) Laura Fogh (1793–1864).
  • He tried to get into the Norwegian Military Academy, but failed the admission test.
  • He studied mineralogy for a short time before founding the satirical magazine Krydseren together with Gudbrand Andreas Berg, Jakob Thomas Rørdam and Claudius Schive in 1849.
  • Hartvig Lassen, Anton Rosing, Halvor Bentsen, Hans Brun and especially Ole Richter were also part of the milieu around the magazine.
  • Norway's first satirical magazine, it was first issued fortnightly, but then weekly and later twice a week.
  • Meidell was the sole editor-in-chief from 1851.
  • Among his contributions as a writer, he is remembered for the song Oleanna.
  • He published collections of writings, Krydserviser in 1882 and then Paa Kryds og paa Tværs in two volumes in 1888 and 1889.On 1 January 1855, Krydseren ended and in its place came the newspaper Aftenbladet.
  • Meidell edited the newspaper together with Børge Hjelm, then with Ole Richter, then with Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
  • Bjørnson did not last for long in Aftenbladet because of political differences, but wrote in 1870 that Meidell was "the finest and wittiest pen" in Norwegian journalism.
  • From 1860 to 1879 Meidell was the sole editor.
  • However, his successor J.
  • Sandberg soon died, and Meidell was again editor from 1880 to 1881, when the newspaper became defunct.
  • From 1884 to 1885 Meidell published a periodical named Norsk Maanedsskrift for Literatur, Kunst og Politik.
  • Despite that Krydseren and Aftenbladet were liberal-leaning, Norsk Maanedsskrift has been called a "Conservative reply to Ernst Sars' Nyt Tidsskrift".
  • Meidell was also head librarian at the Deichman Library from 1884 to 1898.In July 1868 in Hommedal Meidell married vicar's daughter Thora Houge (1843–1924).
  • He died in July 1900 in Kristiania.

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