Edgeir Benum
Template:Short description Edgeir Reidar Benum (13 October 1939 – 18 May 2024) was a Norwegian historian.
He was born in Verdal Municipality, 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
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.
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