[1] Sivert Pålsson Bratberg was born on Bratberg øvre, a farm near the village of Beitstad which is near the town of Steinkjer in Nordre Trondheim county, Norway.
Bratberg became a schoolteacher in the village of Dalbygda in the prestegjeld of Leksvik.
He died accidentally at his farm during the summer of 1816 after being kicked by a horse.
[2][3][4] Sivert Bratberg represented Nordre Trondhjems amt (now Nord-Trøndelag) at the Norwegian Constituent Assembly in 1814, together with Hans Christian Ulrik Midelfart and Hieronymus Heyerdahl.
Here he generally supported the position of the independence party (Selvstendighetspartiet).