About Mati Laur
Mati Laur (born 17 June 1955, in Abja-Paluoja) is an Estonian historian. He has written and coauthored textbooks about early modern Estonia. He has published scholarly articles about eighteenth-century Estonia, which was also the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Despite this narrow specialisation, he is a professor of general history at the University of Tartu. Together with Karsten Brüggemann, Laur is the editor of the historical journal Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte (Studies on Baltic History). He has published scholarly articles about eighteenth-century Estonia, which also was the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
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