[1] Georg Sverdrup was born in the fishing village of Laugen in the prestegjeld of Nærøy in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.

[2] Georg Sverdrup entered the University of Copenhagen during 1794 and graduated with a degree in philology in 1798.

[3] He represented Christiania at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly during 1814 at Eidsvoll Manor.

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.

Sverdrups gate in the district of Grünerløkka in Oslo was named in his honor.