Background
Sverdrup was born in Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane as the son of vicar and politician Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.
Sverdrup was born in Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane as the son of vicar and politician Harald Ulrik Sverdrup.
Edvard Sverdrup attended Bergen Cathedral School and took his final exams in 1880. He graduated as candidate.theol.
He was the father of oceanographer and meteorologist Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Junior. in 1885. 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. He was chairman of the board of The Norwegian Lutheran Inner Missionary (Det norske lutherske Indremisjonsselskap) from 1911 to 1923.