Georg Johan Sverdrup Explained

Georg Johan Sverdrup
Birth Date:	January 26, 1885
Birth Place:	Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation:	Religious scholar

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

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Begravde i Oslo . January 10, 2020.
2. Book: Finne-Grønn . S. H. . Slegten Sverdrup: kortfattede genealogiske-personalhistoriske oplysninger med prospekter og portrætter . 1923 . Det Mallingske Bogtrykkeri . Christiania.
3. Book: Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon . 1972 . Aschehoug . Oslo.
4. Encyclopedia: Bratberg. Terje. Sverdrup. 2018. Store norske leksikon. January 10, 2020.
5. Book: Studentene fra 1935: biografiske opplysninger, artikler og statistikk samlet til 25-års jubileet september 1960 . 1960 . Bokkomiteen for studentene fra 193 . Oslo.
6. Book: Nora S. Eggen . Hanna . Sameh . El-Farahaty . Hanem . Khalifa . Abdel-Wahab . The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation . 2019 . Routledge . London . 1138958042 . 65–80 . On the Periphery: Translations of the Qurʾān in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway.
7. Halden . Sissel . Professor Schenke [sic] og Teologene . Chaos: dansk-norsk tidsskrift for religionshistoriske studier . 1999 . 32 . 79, 85 . Institut for religionshistorie . Copenhagen.