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.
[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.
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