Mati Laur

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 also was the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

Despite this narrow specialisation, he is a professor of general history at the University of Tartu.

[1][better source needed] Together with Karsten Brüggemann, Laur is the editor of the historical journal Forschungen zur baltischen Geschichte (Studies on Baltic History).