Rudolf Wall

Axel Rudolf Mauritz Wall (19 January 1826 – 20 August 1893) was a Swedish publisher and journalist who founded Dagens Nyheter in 1864.

He was the son of the merchant sailor Erik Gustaf Saxholm and Johanna Fredrika Chagelin.

After receiving private tuition, he got into contact with Lars Johan Hierta (1801–1872), the founder of Aftonbladet, in whose office he began to work as a boy, continuing his education in the meantime.

The company succeeded under his leadership and in 1847, he started the Sunday news Söndagstidningen and the next year a weekly magazine for children and youth Veckoskrift för barn och ungdom.

[2] Some failed dealings caused a bankruptcy in 1859 and forced him to embark on a journalistic career to support himself.