Johan Fjeldsted Dahl

Johan Anthon Abraham Fjeldsted Dahl (1 January 1807 – 16 March 1877) was a Norwegian bookseller and publisher. He was a patron of the arts and was co-founder of Oslo Kunstforening.

Personal life Dahl was born in Copenhagen as the son of shoemaker John Dahl and Anne Kirstine Willumsen. He was married to singer and music teacher Emma Amalie Charlotte Freyse (1819–1896).

Dahl founded the newspaper Den Constitutionelle in 1836, with assistance from Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt and Carl Andreas Fougstad. He was a co-founder of the art gallery and art society Christiania Kunstforening (now Oslo Kunstforening) in 1836, and Henrik Heftye.

Dahl is immortalized through Henrik Wergeland's farce Papegøien (The Parrot) from 1835, where his course of life forms the basis for a wild parody. When Dahl learned about the farce, he offered to publish the book, something Wergeland found amusing and agreed to. But as a revenge Dahl put a label on the title page of the book, without Wergeland's knowledge, where it said that the complete profit was to be donated to charity.