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

Verdal Verdal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Verdalsøra. Some villages in the municipality include Forbregd/Lein, Lysthaugen, Stiklest ...

, and is the younger brother of athlete Pål Benum. He graduated from the

University of Oslo The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...

with a cand.philol. degree in 1967, and worked as a scholarship holder there from 1968 to 1972.Profile
at the University of Oslo He then became a professor in history at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

from 1972 to 1980 and then at the

since 1980. He has twice been a visiting scholar at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He is a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

Selected bibliography

This is a list of his most notable works: *''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
1939 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian historians University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Academic staff of the University of Oslo Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters People from Verdal 21st-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-historian-stub