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Georg Sverdrup (born Jørgen Sverdrup; 25 April 1770 – 8 December 1850) was a

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, best known as one of the presidents of the

Norwegian Constituent Assembly The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised th ...

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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 Laugen or Lauga is a fishing village in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. The village lies about northeast of the village of Steine and about southwest of the town of Kolvereid Kolvereid is a town in the municipa ...

Nærøy Nærøy () is a former municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 2020 when it joined Nærøysund Municipality. It was part of the Namdalen region. Norway's smallest town, Kolvereid, wa ...

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. The county was established in 1804 when the old Trondhjems amt was divided into two: Nordre Trondhjems amt and S ...

, 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 and served as the 4th prime minister of Norway. Sverdrup was ...

, 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 in Eidsvoll in 1814. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament and ...

, the Norwegian-American Lutheran theologian, was his great-nephew. 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 (in Norwegian ''Grunnlovsforsamlingen'', also known as ''Riksforsamlingen'') is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly at Eidsvoll in Norway, that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised 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 1818 and 1824.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

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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

Vår Frelsers gravlund The Cemetery of Our Saviour ( no, Vår Frelsers gravlund) is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great ...

. 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)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sverdrup, Georg 1770 births 1850 deaths Norwegian philologists Norwegian librarians University of Oslo faculty Fathers of the Constitution of Norway Members of the Storting Presidents of the Storting Politicians from Oslo University of Copenhagen alumni People from Nærøy

Biography

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