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

[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.