Statsborgeren

{{Short description|Norwegian magazine (1831–1837)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Statsborgeren 3 juli 1831.png | image_size = 200 | image_alt = Cover page of the magazine | image_caption = Cover page dated 3 July 1831 | editor = {{ubl|Peder Soelvold |Henrik Wergeland}} | editor_title = | previous_editor = | category = Political magazine | frequency = | circulation = | publisher = | founder = Peder Soelvold | founded = 1831 | firstdate =  | finaldate = 1837 | company = | country = Norway | based = Oslo | language = Norwegian | website = | issn = | oclc = }} '''''Statsborgeren''''' (Norwegian: ''The Citizen'') was a political magazine which was published in Oslo in the period 1831–1937. It was one of the opposition publications.

==History and profile== ''Statsborgeren'' was founded by Peder Soelvold<ref name=arg>{{cite news|author=Øyvind Andresen|title=Fædrelandsvennens første redaktør |url=https://www.argumentagder.no/post/f%C3%A6drelandsvennens-f%C3%B8rste-redakt%C3%B8r|access-date=15 December 2021|work=Argument|date=5 January 2021|language=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118200607/https://www.argumentagder.no/post/f%C3%A6drelandsvennens-f%C3%B8rste-redakt%C3%B8r|archive-date=18 January 2021}}</ref> in 1831.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Øivind Larsen|author2=Magne Nylenna|title=Frederik Holst som redaktør|journal=Michael|year=2017|volume=14|issue=4|page=327|url=https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/64685|hdl=10852/64685|language=no}}</ref> The editor of the paper was also Peder Soelvold between 1831 and 1835.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Kristian Nymark|title=Om Klapper-Slanger og statsborgerlige Skrighalse: Embetsmennene og den nye politiske offentligheten etter 1814|journal=Heimen|year=2018|volume=22|issue=4 |language=no|doi=10.18261/issn.1894-3195|doi-access=free|hdl=11250/2576532|hdl-access=free}}</ref> The magazine criticized the government, ruling bureaucracy and fought for the rights of farmers.<ref name=arg/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Henrik G. Bastiansen|author-link=Henrik G. Bastiansen|title=Rethinking Mass Communications in Norway |journal=Nordicom Review|date=2014|volume=35|issue=2|page=45|doi=10.2478/nor-2014-0021|s2cid=238992130 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Due to tensions with the government Peder Soelvold had to resign from the post, and Henrik Wergeland replaced him as the editor of ''Statsborgeren''.<ref name=arg/><ref>{{cite journal |author=Theodore Jorgenson|title=Book review|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_jegp-journal-of-english-and-germanic-philology_1960-04_59_2/page/328|journal=Journal of English and Germanic Philology|date=April 1960|volume=59|issue=2 |page=329|jstor=27707475}}</ref> Wergeland edited the magazine until 1837 when it folded.<ref name=arg/>

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