Framgang was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Lillehammer

Lillehammer

is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...

 in Oppland

Oppland

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway....

 county.

It was started in 1886 as a Liberal organ for people affiliated with Vonheim Folk High School. Editors-in-chief were Johan Filseth and Matias Skard

Matias Skard

Matias Skard was a Norwegian philologist, educator, psalmist, essayist and translator, a brother of folklorist Johannes Skar....

. Skard left Vonheim in 1890, and Filseth became the sole editor. By 1893, he had fallen into conflict with the people of Vonheim, and he left to found his own newspaper Gudbrandsdølen

Gudbrandsdølen

Gudbrandsdølen was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Lillehammer in Oppland county.Gudbrandsdølen was started on 1 January 1894, after editor-in-chief Johan Filseth had been jettisoned from another newspaper Framgang. After his death in 1927, Jul Sundsvik and Johan's son Kaare Filseth took over....

. Framgang continued publication until 1896.