Adolf Bredo Stabell

Adolf Bredo Stabell (19 November 1807 – 21 November 1865) was a Norwegian newspaper editor, banker and politician.

He was born in Trondhjem (now Trondheim) as a son of Nicolai Bredo Stabell (1736–1817) and Karen Bolette Grøgaard (1769–1832). He was married twice. In September 1829 he married Caroline Birgitte Knudtzon (1805–1848). After her death, he married Theodora Adolphine Egidius (1827–1910) in March 1860.

He edited the newspaper Morgenbladet from 1831 to 1857. He was elected to the Parliament of Norway from Akershus Amt in 1844, and was re-elected in 1847, 1850, 1853 and 1856. From 1848 he had served as President of the Odelsting. He co-founded Akers Sparebank in 1842, chairing it from 1846 to 1865, and in 1858 he co-founded Den norske Creditbank which he led from 1858.

Stabell joined Morgenbladet year later, in 1831, the newspaper's owner, Rasmus Hviid . Stabell worked as an editor, with several exchanges, most of which anonymously, as a representative of the newspaper. Under Stabell was the newspaper within a few years more modern compared to the balance between news, commentary, debate and ads. Morgenbladet also took a clear political position of the liberal opposition, which led to the newspaper The Constitutionelle was created as a more government-friendly competitor. The two newspapers were frequently disagree, especially when compared to the poets Henrik Wergeland and Johan Sebastian Welhaven , albeit the views of the two varied in the papers. Stabells role as newspaper editor was involved in creating an independent newspaper with clear political opinions and news.

Stabell got Ludvig Kristensen Daa into newspaper employee in 1841. In the same year had Morgenbladet, which had benefited from Wergeland's contribution in the newspaper, a major dispute with Wergeland, partly because of disagreements between Wergeland and Daa. It meant that the newspaper initially refused Wergeland column space, then anklarge him to be inappropriate as a bishop because he was "opirret and struggled Lune" and that Wergeland, having authored Mig Although , cut cooperation in three years. With Daa in the newspaper were also chart less active directly as a journalist.

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