Edgeir Reidar Benum (13 October 1939 – 18 May 2024) was a Norwegian historian.

He was born in Verdal, and was a younger brother of athlete Pål Benum. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.philol. degree in 1967,[1] and worked as a scholarship holder there from 1968 to 1972.[2] He then became a professor in history at the University of Tromsø from 1972 to 1980 and then at the University of Oslo from 1980 to 2009.[1] He has twice been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[3]

Selected bibliography

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This is a list of his most notable works:[1]

  • Maktsentra og opposisjon. Spaniasaken i Norge 1946-47, 1969.
  • Sentraladministrasjonens historie. volume 2, 1979.
  • Byråkratienes by. Fra 1948 til våre dager. volume 5 of Oslo bys historie, 1994.
  • Overflod og fremtidsfrykt, volume 12 of Aschehougs norgeshistorie, 1998.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Edgeir Benum". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  2. ^ a b Profile Archived 2007-05-10 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Oslo
  3. ^ "Gruppe 1: Historie" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2009.