Bernt Ancher Sverdrup (1734 - 1809)

Born 17 Feb 1734 in Vang, Hedmark, Norway

Ancestors

Husband of Eleonora (Leuch) Sverdrup — married 29 Jun 1774 in Aker, Akershus, Norway

Died 31 Jan 1809 at age 74 in Oslo, Norway

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Biography

Bernt Sverdrup was the castle priest at Akershus Castle in Oslo for 23 years, serving from 1772 - 1795.

Bernt was born 17 February 1734 in Vang, Hedmark. He was the son of Hans Sverdrup and Antoinette Archer.

Graduated from Christiania School, he became a student in 1751, took philosophicum in 1752 and conditioned the following year with the priest in Land, Mr. Niels Dorph. Though however, his memory was for the legal study, he followed the parents' wish and Prepared at Dorph for the Theological Exam he absolutely did 3/13 1757. He then followed his desire to study law and foreign languages half a year in hopes of going abroad, but had to give up this when the parents persuaded him to become a personal assistant for Niels Dorph in Land, who offered him the position. He was called here 11 March 1758 and worked like that for the summer of 1769 when he went to Copenhagen to apply. ^[1]

Without admonition friends and patronage it looked like he was but he soon won bishop Harboe's favorite and widow 2 November 1770 Waisenhuset's call in Copenhagen. ln this he found himself so well that he declined the offer promotion to better offices and thought to remain there, but then the Palace Priesthood by Mr. Johannes Green's death became vacant in Christiania and he left for a Higher place called for this, and the order was already finished 1 May, but then, when Struense intervened in favor of the parish priest in Kvislemark Johan Rasmus Stein, who was therefore named 6 September 1771. However, it was decided that Waisenhuset should be abolished, what Sverdrup loudly harmed by, as in his opinion this fought against the foundation, and on its founding day, 11 October 1771, he held a speech that aroused a sizable uplift, not least at court, because with fearless boldness he went right with the tall gentlemen who were eager for the institution of the institution and not among them at least the almighty Struense. Sverdrup was apologized by his friends in this way, having lost his carriages. However, he continued at Waisenhusetto its decommissioning 3 December 1771, and a few days after, 11 December, the newly appointed and not yet joined the castle priest Steins death, what brought Sverdrup to think again of the castle call. However, the prospects had to be considered hopeless for him, Sallange, Struense was in power, and the Chancellor therefore called the position unoccupied for the longest time in hope of a favorable apartment for Sverdrup. And it came at Struense's fall 17 November 1772. Sverdrup got the position as castle priest Akershus and parish priest to Aker 12 March1772 and drew anthrax to Christiania to take over his new one office. Already 3 October, by Dr. Holmboe's death, he was constituted as a diocese and also as director of the chalet.^[2]

In his clerical work, Sverdrup was a very active man, and especially school education warm him to heart. On his initiative and personal performance it was that Bernt Anker and his wife in 1777 decided on an annual basis to assume 12 poor children for upbringing, and they transferred Sverdrup to the front the institute for such a child who, under the name "Anchorage Vaisenhus" began his business on the Lager Ankers birthday 11 April 1778. ^[3]

The following year, the 11 March 1779, Sverdrup got a school for the soldiers' children, and he carried it himself most of the burden, both in terms of teaching and money. Self Sverdrup was an economically very wealthy man. In Christiania he bought in 1773 the later known as "Grüning's Loop" confessed significant property which included the terrain between Carl Johans street and Piperviken and had his mastery settlement at the "Prestegade", a street that got the name after the castle priest. Here he lived until his death in 1809, after which the loop was sold to Major General Knut Mejer. In 1774, with his wife, he had the farm Frogner in Aker, which he was after her death sold in 1787 to the writer Iver Elieson, and instead he bought the farm Høvik in Bærum and built new houses here. He could thus fully say he was had "the most beautiful homes in the city and in the country ". ^[4]

About himself he writes in Kaldsbogen: "I have a cheerful mind, no fierce passions, have from the youth kept a proper diet and never escaped me from work where I threatened to benefit. i can be counted among the happy of my contemporaries, since I have had the happiest, though far too short marriage, the most honorable heirs and plenty of livelihood."^[5]

From his childhood, Sverdrup suffered from "crampedness", which also through the years had made it difficult for him to train a pleasant voice. This evil came back with strength as he, like: as an elderly man he began to become corpulent, and from 1788 he was even plagued by increasing obesity, which gradually did him unfit for public affairs, why he sought and resigned 27 March 1795 with 350 rdl pension.^[6]

He was married 29 June 1774 in Aker with Eleonore Leuch, baptized 14 June 1738 in Oslo and died there 7 April 1786,^[7] the daughter of the rich merchant Niels Mortensen Leuch and Cathrine Hellesdatter. Bernt and Eleonore did not have any children.^[8][9]

At the time of the 1801 Norway census, Bernt was living in Oslo at 7 Graendsen og Hammersborg, aged 68, a widower and retired priest on a pension of 350 rd. With him in the household were a number of unmarried servants, including Sørine Sørendatter, Johanna Pedersdatter, Berthe Larsdatter and Ingeborg Chrstophersdatter.^[10]

He died in Oslo 31 January 1809 at the age of 75 and his remains were buried 9 February 1809 at Akershus slotts-menighet.^[11]

Bernt (Larssøn) Anker Sverdrup født i Vang på Hedemarken 1734, av foreldre Lars Sverdrup og Antonette Anker, Lars var senere eier av Hakadal Jernverk. Bernt Anker Sverdrup ble gift 29.Juni, 1774 med enken Eleonore Nielsdatter Leuch (1738 - 1786, datter av Grossere Niels Mortensen Leuch (1700 - 1760) og Catherine (Hellesdatter) Hellesen (1709 - 1760) Eleonore s første mann var Friderich Clausen, ( død 1773) Bernt Anker Sverdrup var slottprest, han sier selv at han ikke var tilhenger av fanatiske pietismen. Etter giftemålet med Eleonore ble han en formuende mann og forbunden med Christianias handelsaristokrati, og ble eier av Frogner herregård , han eide også den praktfulle bygningen som under navn av Gruningsløkke som sto helt til i 1860 åra. Han var fetter av Bernt Anker, Peder Anker og Jess Anker. På grunn av svakelighet og tiltagende fedme tok han avskjed i 1795, og døde 31. Jan. 1809.

Sources

1. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
2. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
3. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
4. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
5. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
6. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
7. ↑ Record of the Burial of Eleonora Leuch, wife of Bernt Sverdrup, aged 48 years. Oslo domkirke Kirkebøker, F/Fa/L0004: Ministerialbok nr. 4, 1743-1786, s. 590-591.
8. ↑ Eleonore Leuch was previously married 15 September 1762 with the merchant Frederik Clanson to Frogner farm, born 1 April 1719 in Oslo and died there 28 April 1773, son of Claus Frederiksen and Maren Nielsdatter, and he had previously been married with Ellen Marie Moestue on 24 August 1744 at Moss. She was born 12 January 1725 at Moss and died 12 November 1761 (daughter of merchant Svend Christensen Moestue and Dorthe Pedersdatter Johnsen.)
9. ↑ Slegten Sverdrup, by S. H. Finne-Grønn, Oslo, March 1923, pages 22 - 23.
10. ↑ Bernt Sverdrup in the 1801 Census. Folketelling 1801 for 0301 Kristiania kjøpstad.
11. ↑ Record of the Burial of Bernt Ancher Sverdrup. Ministerialbok for Garnisonsmenigheten, Akershus slottsmenighet 1777-1809 (0301M4).

• Sverdrup, Bernt i Carl Fredrik Brieg, Dansk biografisk Lexikon (1 uygave, 1903)
• hpps://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernt_Anker_Sverdrup
• https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup