Hagbard Emanuel Berner MP |
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Member of the Norwegian Parliament | |
In office 1880–1888 |
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Constituency | Akershus |
Auditor General of Norway | |
In office 1883–1898 |
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Preceded by | Peder Gaarder |
Succeeded by | Svend Borchmann Hersleb Vogt |
Burgomaster of Christiania | |
In office 1892–1912 |
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1st President of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights | |
In office 1884–1885 |
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Succeeded by | Anna Stang |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 September 1839 |
Died | 24 January 1920 |
Nationality | Norway |
Political party | Liberal Party |
Hagbard Emanuel Berner (12 September 1839 – 24 January 1920) was a Norwegian jurist, Liberal Party politician and newspaper editor. He initiated a series of long-lived enterprises, including the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget, the newspaper Dagbladet and the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. Berner served as a liberal Member of Parliament, as Auditor General of Norway and as Burgomaster of Christiania.
Berner was born in Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Ole Christian Berner and Laura Nicoline Collin. The family moved to Akershus in 1850. He married Selma Augusta Hovind in 1871. He was the brother-in-law of both industrialist Hans Mustad and Hans Gerhard Stub (1849–1931), Bishop of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.
Berner graduated as a student in 1858, and as a jurist in 1863. In Christiania he befriended intellectuals such as Ernst Sars and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, and became politically active and a supporter of the Nynorsk language. He co-founded the publishing house Det Norske Samlaget in 1868, and was its chairman until 1877.
In 1868 he co-founded the newspaper Dagbladet, together with Danish-born author and literary figure, Anthon Bang (1809–1870). He was editor of Dagbladet from 1869 to 1879. The newspaper had close connections to the political movement that later came to be the Liberal Party of Norway.