Reidar Stavseth
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Reidar Stavseth | |
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| Born | May 21, 1907 |
| Died | April 12, 1991 (aged 83) |
| Occupation(s) | Newspaper editor, politician |
Reidar Stavseth (May 21, 1907 – April 12, 1991) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and a politician for the Conservative Party. He served as editor for many different newspapers and is best known for being the editor-in-chief of Adresseavisen in Trondheim from 1969 to 1975. He belonged to a group of journalists with "a clearly conservative attitude and an academic education."[1]
Stavseth was born and grew up in Trondheim, the son of the school principal Julius August Stavseth and his wife Rikke Thorland, both originally from Nærøy Municipality along the Trøndelag coast. He received his examen artium at Trondheim Cathedral School in 1927, a degree in economics at Royal Frederick University in 1929, and also attended a semester at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In 1939 he married Ragnhild Julie Eik, a farmer's daughter from Borre Municipality. The couple's son Gunnar Stavseth is also a journalist and politician for the Conservative Party.[2][3]
