William Martin Nygaard

William Martin Nygaard

William Martin Nygaard (6 February 1865 – 1952) was a Norwegian publisher and politician.

Nygaard was born in Kristiansand as the son of school principal Marius Nygaard (1838-1912) and his wife Elisabeth "Elise" Martin (1842-1923) [http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=12216 William Martin Nygaard] — Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) ] and brother of Kristen Brunfeldt Nygaard and Finn Nygaard. He married to Constance Wiel, and the couple had seven children, among them Mads Wiel Nygaard and Andreas Melchior Wiel Nygaard, grandfather of William Nygaard. In 1894 he bought Drammensveien 99 and moved in with his family. [ [http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?s
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] It is in the garden outside Drammensveien 99 the annual garden party of Aschehoug takes place each summer.

Publisher

He was employed in H. Aschehoug & Co's bookstore in Kristiania in 1887.b] Together with Thorstein Lambrechts he bought in 1888 both the bookstore and the publishing house, and in 1900 he became the sole proprietor of the publishing house, and changed the name of the company to "H. Aschehoug & Co (W. Nygaard)". He was chief publisher (CEO) of the publishing house until 1940 when his son Mads Wiel Nygaard took over as CEO and he continued as chairman of the board.

In 1895 William Nygaard initiated the founding of the Norwegian Publishers Association, serving as chairman from 1895 to 1922 and 1925 to 1929.c]

Politician

William Nygaard was a member of the Kristiania city council from 1908 to 1919. In 1910 he was one of the founders of the political party Liberal Left Party, chairing the local chapter in Kristiania until 1916. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament for the term 1922–1924, representing the constituency Kristiania. He served only one term.d]

He was also a member of the board of Oslo City Museum (1902-1922), the Norwegian Booksellers Association (1905-1918), Saugbrugsforeningen (1914-1932), Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse (1917-1922), Nationaltheatret (1922-1923), Vinmonopolet (1929-1932) and the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.e]

References

*Erik Rudeng: "William Nygaard: 1865-1952" (Aschehoug, Oslo, 1997) ISBN 82-03-26111-6


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