Name Edvard Sverdrup Died 1923 | Parents Harald Ulrik Sverdrup | |
Children Mimi Sverdrup Lunden, Harald Sverdrup, Leif J. Sverdrup, Einar Sverdrup People also search for Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Jakob Sverdrup, Georg Sverdrup | ||
Grandchildren Siri Sverdrup Lunden | ||
Johan Edvard Sverdrup (22 June 1861 – 21 January 1923) was a Norwegian educator, author and church leader. Sverdrup was one of the key theologians in the Church of Norway in the first few decades of the 1900s.
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Sverdrup was born in Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane as the son of vicar and politician Harald Ulrik Sverdrup. His uncle Johan Sverdrup founded the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister of Norway in 1884, and his brother Jakob Sverdrup became a government minister. He was the father of oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Jr..
Edvard Sverdrup attended Bergen Cathedral School and took his final exams in 1880. He graduated as cand.theol. in 1885. From 1885 to 1893 he worked as a teacher at the folk high school in Sogndal which had been established by his brother, Jakob Sverdrup. In 1803, he was appointed vicar (sogneprest) in Sulen (now Solund)] in the county of Sogn og Fjordane.
In 1908, he was among the first teachers at the newly established MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo. He was professor there from 1918. He published several books, many on church history. From 1910 to 1918, he was co-editor with theologian, Christian Ihlen (1868–1958) of the periodical Lutheran Church Gazette (Luthersk Kirketidende) which had been founded in 1863 by Norwegian theologian, Gisle Johnson. He was chairman of the board of The Norwegian Lutheran Inner Missionary (Det norske lutherske Indremisjonsselskap) from 1911 to 1923.