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'''Albert Cammermeyer''' (27 December 1838 – 18 February 1893) was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was a pioneer in Norwegian publishing and founder of '''[[Cappelen Damm|Alb. Cammermeyers bokhandel og forlag]]''' (now Cappelen Damm).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://snl.no/Albert_Cammermeyer|title= Albert Cammermeyer|publisher= Store norske leksikon|access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Frederik Albert Cammermeyer was born in [[Innvik]] (now [[Stryn]]), in [[Sogn og Fjordane]] county, Norway. He started at the bookstore os Harald Lyche in [[Drammen]] (1854) and went to work for [[Jacob Dybwad]] in [[Oslo|Christiania]] in 1862. He opened his own bookstore in 1867, later expanding into book publishing as well. In 1869, his enterprise became a supplier to the Parliamentary library. He chaired the [[Norwegian Booksellers Association]] from 1886 to 1891.<ref name=snl>[[Egil Tveterås]]. {{cite encyclopedia|year=2007 |title=Cammermeyer, Albert |publisher=Norsk biografisk leksikon |location= |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Albert_Cammermeyer}}</ref><br />
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He succeeded [[Magnus Feilberg]], who had been one of the founders of the Association in 1851.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|year=2007 |title=Feilberg, Magnus Wogelius |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location= |url=https://snl.no/Magnus_Wogelius_Feilberg }}</ref> After he became ill, he handed over bookstores to three of his employees in 1888. The bookstore and publishing house were sold in separate transactions to three of Cammermeyer's associates between 1888 and 1890. The publishing house was taken over by Lars Swanström in 1890. In 1965, the bookstore Cammermeyer founded was merged into the Norwegian bookstore chain owned by Johan Grundt Tanum.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Johan_Grundt_Tanum|title= Johan Grundt Tanum|publisher= lokalhistoriewiki.no <br />
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Today, the publishing enterprise founded by Albert Cammermeyer is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Norwegian publishing company [[Cappelen Damm]], which was formed when the publishers JW Cappelen Publishing Co. and NW Damm & Søn AS in 2007.<ref name=snl/><ref>[http://www.tanumbokhandel.no/index.php?id=4490676 ''The History of Tanum'' (Cappelen Damm AS)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724184817/http://www.tanumbokhandel.no/index.php?id=4490676 |date=2011-07-24 }}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.cappelendamm.no/main/katalog.aspx Cappelen Damm official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903192748/http://www.cappelendamm.no/main/katalog.aspx |date=2014-09-03 }}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110724185022/http://www.tanumbokhandel.no/forsiden.106595.no.html Tanum official website]<br />
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