Career
He hailed from Bergen and was an older brother of Andreas Paulson. The family had moved to Bergen from Jølster in 1860, as the father, politician Olav Paulssøn (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 Bergen fire of 1916.
He died in late 1926.