Georg Johan Sverdrup

Georg Johan Sverdrup (January 26, 1885 – November 4, 1951)^[1][2] was a professor of the history of religion.^[3][4]

Georg Johan Sverdrup
Born	(1885-01-26)January 26, 1885 Stockholm, Sweden
Died	November 4, 1951(1951-11-04) (aged 66)
Occupation	Religious scholar

Life and family

Sverdrup was born in Stockholm; 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.^[2] He was the father of the historian Jakob Sverdrup, who directed the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the mathematician Erling Sverdrup.^[5] He was the nephew of the theologian Georg Sverdrup.

After graduation, he worked as an instructor and school principal in Molde and at the Tanks Upper Secondary School in Bergen.^[2] After the Second World War, he received a professorship in religious studies at the University of Oslo as the successor to Wilhelm Schencke.^[6][7]

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