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'''Torger Baardseth''' (23 September 1875 &ndash; 21 October 1947) was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher.<ref>{{cite web<br />
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==Background==<br />
Torger Baardseth was born at [[Bærum]] in [[Akershus]] county, Norway. His parents were Nils Baardseth (1839–1920) and Gunda Elisa Morris (1855–1926). After middle school examination in 1891, he was an apprentice at [[Peter Tidemand Malling|P. T.Malling bokhandel]] in Christiania. In 1899, he traveled to Copenhagen to work at Det nordiske Forlag, one of Scandinavia's leading publishers.<br />
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==Career==<br />
In January 1901 he began working at [[J. W. Cappelens Forlag]], one of the oldest publishing houses of Norway. He was the director of Cappelens from 1904 to 1916 and 1919 to 1943. In between, Baardseth had the chance for self-employment when he took over leadership of Steenske Forlag, a small company that dated to 1829. After a half year, he offered to buy the publishing house, and he was able to, with financial help from [[Cappelen (family)|Jørgen W. Cappelen]] III. Baardseth continued as chairman of Steenske. Baardseth made it a publishing company with great influence. One of the first major tasks he undertook was a complete release of all works that 19th-century Norwegian writer [[Henrik Wergeland]] had written.<br />
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Torger Baardseth was chairman of the [[Norwegian Booksellers Association]] from 1902 to 1916, Assistant (with brief interruptions) in the Norwegian Publishers Association 1922-24 and 1929–36, chairman of the Norwegian Pension Fund and Bookstores Savings Bank from 1916 and the [[Norwegian Booksellers Association]] 1936-39. In many fields, he took up the fight to improve conditions of workers, from education and scholarship schemes to salary and pension. A central issue for many years was the worker's right to establish themselves as [[independent bookstore]]s.<ref>{{Citation |last=Tveterås |first=Egil |author-link=Egil Tveterås |title=Torger Baardseth |date=2024-06-18 |work=Norsk biografisk leksikon |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Torger_Baardseth |access-date=2024-08-11 |language=no}}</ref><br />
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