In 1842, he finished his apprenticeship and became a factor at the concern run by the Wulfsberg printing and bookselling family.
[1] In 1851, he rented the premises of Guldberg & Dzwonkowski and started his own printing house, A. W. Brøggers Bogtrykkeri.
The following year, Brøgger started a partnership with typographer Johan Arnoldus von Westen Sylow Koren Christie (1821–92).
It also published several Norwegian academic and scientific publications and, in 1863, textbooks for Jørgen Wright Cappelen.
After her death in 1905, her son Waldemar Christofer and his wife Thora Brøgger continued to run it.