Christian Schibsted

In 1839 he acquired burghership and established the publishing house Schibsted together with Johan Jørgen Krohn.

In August 1860 Schibsted married a sister of his second wife, Edel Elise Dorothea Halvorsen, who outlived him by twenty years.

[1] From the beginning, the publishing house Schibsted had issued various periodicals, magazines and textbooks.

[4] Christian Schibsted died in June 1878, and is buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.

After his death, Amandus Schibsted inherited the newspaper,[1] and became the sole owner and chief editor in 1879.