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




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. He was the father of the historian Jakob Sverdrup, who directed the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the mathematician Erling Sverdrup. 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. 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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar kepala pemerintahan Norwegia
• Daftar kawah di Bulan, R-S
• Georg Johan Sverdrup
• Georg Sverdrup (theologian)
• Sverdrup (disambiguation)
• Georg Sverdrup
• Otto Sverdrup
• Jakob Sverdrup (historian)
• Jakob Sverdrup (politician)
• Jakob Sverdrup (philologist)
• Edvard Sverdrup
• Sverdrup's Fram expedition (1898–1902)