Marten Seppel
Born (1979-01-06) January 6, 1979
NationalityEstonian
OccupationHistorian

Marten Seppel (born January 6, 1979)[1] is an Estonian historian specializing in agrarian history.[2]

Education

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]

Career

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 History Society, the Economic History Society, and The European Society for the History of Economic Thought.[1]

Awards and recognitions

  • 2014: Estonian Historical Literature Annual Award[1]
  • 2015: Jüri Uluots Scholarship[1]
  • 2018: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship[1]
  • 2022: University of Tartu Badge of Distinction[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Marten Seppel". Estonian Research Information System. Republic of Estonia, Ministry of Education and Research. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Luna-Fabritius, Adriana; Nokkala, Ere; Seppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (2023). Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe. London: Routledge. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Seppel, Marten; Tribe, Keith (2017). Cameralism in Practice: State Administration and Economy in Early Modern Europe. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press.
  4. ↑ Seppel, Marten. "Näljaabi Liivi- ja Eestimaal 17. sajandist 19. sajandi alguseni". Dissertatsioonid 2004 – Theses, MSc, PhD (ETD). University of Tartu. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Üliõpilaste teadustööde riikliku konkursi 2008.a tulemused" (PDF). Konkursi tulemused 2008. Eesti Teadusagentuur. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Badge of Distinction". University of Tartu. University of Tartu. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
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