Georg Johan Sverdrup (January 26, 1885 – November 4, 1951) was a professor of the history of religion.

Life and family

Sverdrup was born in

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; he was the son of the bishop and politician Jakob Sverdrup and the brother of the Germanic philology professor Jakob Sverdrup and the zoologist Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme. He was the father of the historian Jakob Sverdrup, who directed the

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, and the mathematician Erling Sverdrup. He was the nephew of the theologian

Georg Sverdrup Georg Sverdrup (born Jørgen Sverdrup; 25 April 1770 – 8 December 1850) was a Norwegian statesman, best known as one of the presidents of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll Manor in 1814. He was a member of the Norwegian Parlia ...

. After graduation, he worked as an instructor and school principal in Molde and at the

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in Bergen. After the Second World War, he received a professorship in religious studies at the University of Oslo as the successor to Wilhelm Schencke.

Bibliography

*''Fra gravskikker til dødstro i nordisk stenalder'' (From Burial Customs to Religious Conceptions of Death in the Nordic Stone Age). Oslo: Dybwad, 1927 *''Die Hausurnen und die Heiligkeit des Hauses'' (House Urns and the Sanctity of the House). Oslo: Dybwad, 1939 *''Da Norge ble kristnet : En religionssosiologisk studie'' (When Norway Became Christian: A Religious Sociological Study). Oslo: Norli, 1942

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sverdrup, Georg Johan Academic staff of the University of Oslo Schoolteachers from Bergen 1885 births 1951 deaths