Aftenbladet was a daily newspaper in Oslo

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...

, Norway

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...

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It was established in 1855 as a continuation of the satirical magazine Krydseren

Krydseren

Krydseren was a Norwegian satirical magazine.It was established in 1849 by Ditmar Meidell, and published by Christian Schibsted. It is regarded as the first satirical magazine in Norway. Ahead the year 1855 it became defunct, as the satirical magazine was turned into a newspaper of the name...

, and had the same editor-in-chief, Ditmar Meidell

Ditmar Meidell

Ditmar Meidell is a Norwegian magazine and newspaper editor.He was born in Bergen as a son of Lieutenant Colonel and customs inspector Christopher Pritzier Meidell Laura Fogh . He tried to get into the Norwegian Military Academy, but failed the admission test...

, for its entire existence except for a short time when J. F. Sandberg edited the newspaper. Contributors include Ole Richter

Ole Richter

Ole Jørgensen Richter was a Norwegian lawyer, politician, parliamentarian and Prime Minister of the Norwegian Government in Stockholm....

, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. Bjørnson is considered as one of The Four Greats Norwegian writers; the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland...

, Frederik Bætzmann and Jens Braage Halvorsen

Jens Braage Halvorsen

Jens Braage Halvorsen was a Norwegian librarian, magazine editor and literary historian.He edited the magazine Ny Illustreret Tidende from 1880 to 1883. He is particularly known for his principal work, the encyclopedia of Norwegian writers, Norsk forfatterlexikon, which was issued from 1881 until...

. Bjørnson was political editor of the newspaper in 1859, published Ja, vi elsker for the first time in 1859 in Aftenbladet, and published En glad Gut as a feuilleton

Feuilleton

Feuilleton was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles...

. The newspaper was liberal-leaning, and anti-Morgenbladet

Morgenbladet

Morgenbladet is a Norwegian weekly newspaper. It was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg, and was the country's first daily newspaper. For a long time, it was also the country's biggest newspaper. It was closed down by the German Wehrmacht during World War II...

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The newspaper was printed and published by Christian Schibsted

Christian Schibsted

Christian Michael Schibsted was a Norwegian printer and publisher, known for establishing Schibsted Forlag and Aftenposten.-Early life and career:...

 until 1860, when it was sold to W. C. Fabritius. It became defunct in 1881.