Edgeir Benum Explained

Edgeir Reidar Benum (born 13 October 1939) is a Norwegian historian.

He was born in Verdal, and is the 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 since 1980.^[1] He has twice been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[3]

Selected bibliography

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

• List of publications in FRIDA

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: 2007 . Benum, Edgeir (Reidar) . . Kunnskapsforlaget .
2. http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/ebenum.xml Profile
3. Web site: Gruppe 1: Historie. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Norwegian. 26 October 2009. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923215709/http://www.dnva.no/c26848/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27637. dead.