About Mati Laur
Born 1955. Mati Laur is an Estonian historian and teacher.
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 BrĂŒggemann, Laur is the editor of the historical journal Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte (Studies on Baltic History).
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Estonian historian (born 1955)
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Mati Laur was born on 17 June 1955 in Abja-Paluoja.
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Mati Laur is a historian and teacher.
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Mati Laur is Estonian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Mati Laur. https://biography.guide/mati-laur/
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