Paul Ragnvald Paulson was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 book publisher and politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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He hailed from Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 and was an older brother of Andreas Paulson

Andreas Paulson

Andreas Paulson was a Norwegian bank accountant, literary critic and theatre critic.He was born in Bergen as the son of politician Olav Paulssøn and Anna Kristine Christofa Hagerup . His family had moved from Jølster the year before he was born, and Paulson spent most of his life in Bergen...

. The family had moved to Bergen from Jølster

Jølster

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 in 1860, as the father, politician Olav Paulssøn

Olav Paulssøn

Olav Paulssøn was a Norwegian bailiff, writer and politician.He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament in 1859, representing the constituency of Nordre Bergenhus Amt. He lived in Jølster at the time, where he was bailiff from 1855 to 1860. In 1860 he was hired as CEO of...

 (1822–1896), was offered a job there.

He started an antiquarian bookshop in Bergen in 1884, and later expanded with a publishing house. The publishing house perished in the city fire in Bergen in 1916. Paulson also translated socialist literature, including Peter Kropotkin

Peter Kropotkin

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...

, Robert Blatchford

Robert Blatchford

Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford was a socialist campaigner, journalist and author in the United Kingdom. He was a prominent atheist and opponent of eugenics. He was also an English patriot...

 and other Fabians

Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...

. He was a member of Bergen city council, and had influence in the nationwide party around 1905–1906. He died in late 1926.