Edgeir Benum

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

He graduated from the the University of Oslo with a cand.philol. degree in 1967, and worked as a scholarship holder there from 1968 to 1972. He then became a professor in history at the University of Tromsø from 1973 to 1980 and then at the University of Oslo since 1980. He has twice been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

elected bibliography

*"Maktsentra og opposisjon. Spaniasaken i Norge 1946-47", 1969.
*"Sentraladministrasjonens historie. volume 2, 1845-1884", 1979.
*"Byråkratienes by. Oslo bys historie, volume 5, 1948-1986", 1994.
*"Overflod og fremtidsfrykt. Aschehougs norgeshistorie, volume 12, 1970 - vår tid", 1998.

References

* [http://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/ebenum.xml University of Oslo]
* [http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/frida.woa/wa/fres?action=sok&etternavn=Benum&fornavn=Edgeir&visParametre=1&bs=50 List of publications in FRIDA]