The University of Oslo was established in 1811, but due the the Napoleonic War it was not until 1815 that Sverdrup could receive the 50,000 volumes, then in Copenhagen, intended for the new university library. It took another year for the government to provide adequate housing for the collection, and not until 1828 was the library finally completed, with a total of 90,000 volumes.
The new university library at Blindern, finished in 1999, is named after Georg Sverdrup. It houses today more than 2,000,000 books.
Apart from this, Sverdrup was also a popular lecturer of Greek.
The GeorgSverdrup Society was organized in December 2003 and is open to anyone interested in the life and work of GeorgSverdrup (1848 - 1907), considered as among "the ablest theologians" in the history of Norwegian-American Lutheranism..
A hundred years after his death, it is difficult to assess what the passing of GeorgSverdrup meant for Augsburg College and Seminary as well as for the newly formed Lutheran Free Church.
Coupled with the pain of Sverdrup's death was also the recent death of the much-loved Rev. Ole Paulson, often referred to as "Augsburg's Grandfather." Paulson had been responsible for moving Augsburg Seminary in 1872 from the small, central Wisconsin town of Marshall to Minneapolis.
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