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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 The Norwegian Constituent Assembly ( or ) is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. The meetings took place at the Eidsvoll Manor in th ...

Eidsvoll Manor Eidsvollsbygningen (Literally: ''The Eidsvoll building'') is a historic manor house located at Eidsvoll in Akershus county, Norway. The building is where the Constitution of Norway was signed on 17 May 1814. The estate is now owned by The State o ...

in 1814. He was a member of the

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and was also responsible for the development of the first Norwegian

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Biography

Georg Sverdrup was born in the fishing village of

Laugen Lauga is a fishing village in Nærøysund Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arcti ...

in the

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Nærøy Nærøy or Nærøya may refer to: Places *Nærøya, an island in Nærøysund Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway *Nærøya (Nordland), an island in Øksnes Municipality in Nordland county, Norway *Nærøy Municipality, a former municipality i ...

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

county, Norway. He was the uncle of brothers Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, who served as a member of Norwegian Parliament, and

Johan Sverdrup Johan Sverdrup (30 July 1816 – 17 February 1892) was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party. He was the first prime minister of Norway after the introduction of parliamentarism. Sverdrup was prime minister from 1884 to 1889. Early year ...

, who was the Prime Minister of Norway.

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 ...

, the Norwegian-American Lutheran theologian, was his

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. Georg Sverdrup entered the

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during 1794 and graduated with a degree in

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in 1798. During the period 1798–1799, he studied at the

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. He represented Christiania at the

Norwegian Constitutional Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly ( or ) is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark. The meetings took place at the Eidsvoll Manor in th ...

during 1814 at

. He was the last president of the Assembly, chosen the second last day, 16 May. He led the election of the king and gave the closing speech. During the drafting of the Norwegian constitution, Sverdrup was one of the principle authors of the

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, which prohibited

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from entering Norway. He was later elected to the

in 1817 and 1823.Wilhelm Hansen
– Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) Sverdrup became professor of Greek at the University of Copenhagen in 1805. Sverdrup was librarian of the

from 1813 to 1845. The

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

was established in 1811 under the name Royal Frederick University, but due to the

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it was not until 1815 that Sverdrup could receive the 50,000 volumes, then in

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, intended for the new

. It took another year for the government to provide adequate localities for the collection, and not until 1828 was the library finally completed, with a total of 90,000 volumes. Georg Sverdrup is buried at

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. Sverdrups gate in the district of

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in Oslo was named in his honor. The new university library at

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(''Georg Sverdrups hus – Universitetsbibliotekets''), finished in 1999, is named after Georg Sverdrup.''Georg Sverdrup – filolog'' (Store norske leksikon)
/ref> It houses more than 2,000,000 books.

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Georg Sverdrups hus – Universitetsbibliotekets

''Georg Sverdrup, eidsvollsmann'' (Eidsvoll 1814)
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Biography

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