[1] It was the project of printing press owner Peter Feilberg, who with "Ugebladet" had started the first newspaper in Skien.
[3] Feilberg and "Ugebladet" was notably convicted of libel in 1837 and sentenced to pay 60 speciedaler; the complaint had been filed by County Governor Frederik Wilhelm Wedel Jarlsberg.
[3] The legal case contributed to the newspaper's demise,[4] but after releasing its final issue on 28 December 1839, it resurfaced already on 3 January 1840 under the name Bratsberg Amtstidende.
Its journalist with somewhat radical political ambitions, Herman Bagger, left the newspaper in 1842 and started a competitor Skiensposten.
Despite a merger between the two old rivals to once again form Bratsberg Amtstidende in 1884,[1] it soon lost terrain to another new newspaper Fremskridt (founded 1885).