Marten Seppel | |
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| Born | January 6, 1979 |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Occupation | Historian |
Marten Seppel (born January 6, 1979) [1] is an Estonian historian specializing in agrarian history. [2]
Marten Seppel | |
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| Born | January 6, 1979 |
| Nationality | Estonian |
| Occupation | Historian |
Marten Seppel (born January 6, 1979) [1] is an Estonian historian specializing in agrarian history. [2]
Seppel graduated from the University of Tartu with a bachelor's degree in 2001. In 2003, he received a master's degree from the University of Cambridge. [3] On June 26, 2008, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tartu, titled Näljaabi Liivi- ja Eestimaal 17. sajandist 19. sajandi alguseni (Famine Relief in Livonia and Estonia from the Seventeenth Century to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century). [4] His supervisors were Enn Tarvel and Tiit Rosenberg, and his reviewer was Aleksander Loit . His dissertation won one of the two main prizes in the national competition for student research papers. [5] In 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Slavic and East European Studies at University College London, and from 2013 to 2014 at Uppsala University. [1]
From 2008 to 2016, Seppel worked at the University of Tartu as a lecturer in general history, and then as an associate professor of early modern history. [2] [3] In 2018, he was a visiting professor at the University of Greifswald. [1]
Seppel has been a member of the Learned Estonian Society since 2006 and has served as a member of its board. He is also a member of the Estonian Academic Historical Society (Estonian : Akadeemiline Ajalooselts), the Economic History Society, and The European Society for the History of Economic Thought. [1]
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