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.

[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 [et].

His dissertation won one of the two main prizes in the national competition for student research papers.