Juhan Kahk

Juhan Kahk (1 August 1928 – 28 June 1998) was an Estonian historian and member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences whose research focused on agrarian and peasant history in Estonia and the Baltic region. Kahk served as director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences (1968–1973). and an English-language methodological discussion in Social Science History. Later international discussions of quantitative history and early computer-assisted history research cite Kahk's work and describe him among Soviet-era pioneers using computers in historical research.

From 1990, Kahk worked as a senior researcher at the academy's Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law until his death. Kahk, Juhan. “À propos de la politique agraire…” Annales (1973). Kahk, Juhan. Bauer und Baron im Baltikum… (posthumous, 1999).

Honours Kahk received the State Science Prize of the Estonian SSR twice (1965 and 1977).