Johan Sørensen

Johan Jean Christian Sørensen (21 November 1830 – 1 October 1918) was a Norwegian businessperson and book publisher who had been at one time Danish consul to Spain.

He was a son of shipmaster, merchant and lighthouse manager Abraham Georg Sørensen and Nancy Samuelson.

He worked at sea from the age of thirteen, but in 1844 he moved with the family to Hustadvika when his father became manager of Kvitholmen Lighthouse.

He gradually relocated his business to Sweden, where he established a sawmill Säfveåns AB in Göteborg with his brothers during 1874.

They also published the periodical Nyt Tidsskrift, edited by Olaf Skavlan and Ernst Sars.

[5] In 1887 he established his own publishing house, Bibliothek for de tusen hjems forlag, where the goal was to mass-produce intellectual and political works for ordinary people, in a series called Bibliothek for de tusen hjem.