Adolf Bredo Stabell

[1] He was born in Trondhjem (now Trondheim) as a son of Nicolai Bredo Stabell (1736–1817) and Karen Bolette Grøgaard (1769–1832).

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 frequently disagreed, especially concerning the poets Henrik Wergeland and Johan Sebastian Welhaven, albeit the views of the two varied in the papers.

It meant that the newspaper initially refused Wergeland column space, then accused him of being unsuitable as a bishop because he was "opirret og i slet Lune" ("upset and bad-tempered") and claimed also that Wergeland, having written the poem "Mig Selv", withdrew co-operation for three years.

Unfortunately for table held The Norwegian Credit Bank to be destroyed already in the beginning as a result of excessive lending policies.