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Georg Sverdrup (born Jørgen Sverdrup, April 25 1770 - 1850 ) was a Norwegian Philologist , responsible for building the first Norwegian University Library . The University Of Oslo was established in 1811 , but due to 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 . |