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[[Image:Tonsberg.jpg|right|thumb|Christian Tønsberg]]
'''Nils Christian Tønsberg''' (7 December 1813 – 6 February 1897) was a Norwegian publisher and author. Christian Tønsberg became one of the larger Norwegian publishers and was best known for illustrated books about Norway.<ref>[http://da2.uib.no/norbild/engframside.htm ''Norge fremstillet i Tegninger and Christian Tønsberg''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727165554/http://da2.uib.no/norbild/engframside.htm |date=2011-07-27 }}</ref>

==Background==
Nils Christian Tønsberg was born in [[Bergen]], Norway. He was the son of a ship manager Johan Christian Tønsberg (1788–1830) and Anne Marie Dahl (1788–1837). From the age of 14 he was employed at the office of town clerk and justice secretary and worked as a secretary for several municipal commissions. In September 1834 he was assistant at the Recorder of Bergen. He enrolled in law studies at the [[University of Christiania]] graduating with the [[cand.jur.]] degree in 1845.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://snl.no/Christian_T%C3%B8nsberg|title= Christian Tønsberg |publisher= Store norske leksikon|access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Udvalgte norske Nationaldragter - no-nb digibok 2012022813001-5.jpg|thumb|''Udvalgte norske Nationaldragter'']]
Tønsberg was employed as clerk in the Treasury Department, working in the office of several Supreme Court lawyers. Tønsberg also served as consul for several countries: [[Kingdom of Bavaria]], Grand Duchy of [[Mecklenburg]], Colombia, [[Liberia]] and [[Romania]]. Additionally he managed estates, auction and estate sales.

When the publishing company of Guldberg & Dzwonkowski was dissolved in 1844, Tønsberg assumed a large part of the publisher's legal literature. Tønsberg had met [[Henrik Wergeland]] in Bergen in 1832 and later became one of the writer's best friends and his main support. He arranged to published ''Hasselnødder'' in 1845. At the time of Wergeland's death the following year, he was asked to manage his estate and take care of the widow. He also published works of [[Andreas Munch]], [[Mauritz Hansen]], [[Magnus Brostrup Landstad]], [[Rudolf Keyser]], [[ Nicolay Nicolaysen]] and [[Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae|Ludvig Daae]] among others. He was among the founders of the [[Norwegian Booksellers Association]] in 1851.<ref>{{cite news
|url= https://snl.no/Carl_August_Guldberg|title= Carl August Guldberg|newspaper= Store norske leksikon |author= Hallgeir Elstad
|access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url= http://opam.no/polen/no/1800-tallet/dzwonkowski|title= Adam Dzwonkowski|publisher= Opplandsarkivet avd. Maihaugen|access-date= December 1, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170825194526/http://opam.no/polen/no/1800-tallet/dzwonkowski|archive-date= 2017-08-25|url-status= dead}}</ref>

Tønsberg became strongly influenced by the National Romantic period and was eager to establish a co-operation between the different art forms. The illustrations were drawn by some of the most famous of Norwegian artists including [[Peter Christen Asbjørnsen]] among others. Tønsberg continued publishing similar books over the next years. He gathered and published the material in ''Norge fremstillet i Tegninger'' with Asbjørnsen in 1848. Tønsberg also published ''Bondeliv i Norge'' by [[Peter Andreas Munch]] and illustrated by [[Adolph Tidemand]] and ''Udvalgte Norske Nationaldragter'' illustrated by [[Johan Fredrik Eckersberg]] in 1861.
Tønsberg continued with a limited publishing until 1891, by which time he was almost blind.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nb.no/nbsok/nb/cae3375942611feb18b3b436aa6a2a5e?lang=no|title= Bondeliv i Norge |publisher= Nasjonalbiblioteket |access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/apctcnorge/
|title= Norge fremstillet i tegninger|publisher= runeberg.org|access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|url= https://archive.org/details/UdvalgteNorskeNationaldragter|title= Udvalgte Norske Nationaldragter (1861) by Johan Fredrik Eckersberg |year= 1861 |access-date= December 1, 2017}}</ref>
<ref>[[Egil Tveterås]]. [http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Christian_T%C3%B8nsberg/utdypning ''Christian Tønsberg – forlegger''] Norsk biografisk leksikon </ref>

==Personal life==
In 1835, he married Maren Dorthea Bødtker (1813-1893). He died 1897 in during Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.

==Selected works==
* ''[http://marcus.uib.no/instance/collection/670e2ff3-92e2-45bd-8c71-ad2fb05ac813 Norge fremstillet i Tegninger]'' (1848)
* ''Christiania og Omegn'' (1850)
* ''[https://historical.ha.com/itm/books/nils-christian-tonsberg-norske-nationaldragter-tegnede-af-forskjellige-norske-kunstnere-og-ledsagede-med-oplys/a/6108-36435.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 Norske Nationaldragter]'' (1852)
* ''Berømte Nordmænd'' (1853–56)
* ''Norske Folkelivsbilleder'' (1854)
* ''Bondeliv i Norge'' (1861)
* ''Udvalgte norske Nationaldragter'' (1861)
* ''Norske Kunstner-Album'' (1873)
* ''Billeder af Norges Natur og Folkeliv'' (1875)
* ''Norsk Portræt-Galleri'' (1877)
* ''En Brudefærd i Hardanger'' (1879)

==Picture from ''Norge fremstillet i Tegninger''==
<gallery>
Image:Norge005Bergen.jpg|''Bergen'' [[Johan Christian Clausen Dahl]]
Image:Norge072Joachim Christian Geelmuyden GyldenkrantzFrichPartiFraNorangfjordISøndmør.jpg|''Nordangfjorden'' [[Joachim Frich]]
File:Norske Folkelivsbilleder 04 - Tömmerkjörsel og Mærkning (Johan Fredrik Eckersberg).jpg| ''Bære og merking av polene'' [[Johan Fredrik Eckersberg]]
File:G. Saal Parti af Moldefjord.jpg|''Parti af Moldefjord'' [[Georg Saal]]
File:Norske Folkelivsbilleder 08 - En Aften ved Sæteren (Knud Bergslien).jpg|''En Aften ved Sæteren'' [[Knud Bergslien]]
File:Norske Folkelivsbilleder 03 - Hjemreisen fra Kirken (Adolph Tidemand).jpg|''Hjemreisen fra Kirken'' [[Adolph Tidemand]]
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100525003717/http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/norbild/ ''Norge fremstillet i Tegninger'']
*[http://www.hist.uib.no/cecilie/f_kjelder.htm ''Norske Folkelivsbilleder'']
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[[Category:Businesspeople from Bergen]]
[[Category:University of Oslo alumni]]
[[Category:Norwegian booksellers]]
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[[Category:Norwegian topographers]]
[[Category:Norwegian non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:19th-century Norwegian writers]]

Christian Tønsberg - Revision history

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