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Peeter Järvelaid

1957 - Today

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Peeter Järvelaid (born 28 November 1957) is an Estonian legal scholar and historian. Järvelaid is a professor in the University of Tallinn. He has developed semiotic and personality-centered research direction, writing hundreds of articles mostly about the European and Estonian legal history and education, published in Estonian, English, German, French, Russian, Latvian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Swedish. Since 2006 his studies have been increasingly concentrated on the international relations in the 20th century, which among others has required intensive archival researches in German and Polish archives. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Peeter Järvelaid is the 556th most popular historian (down from 554th in 2024), the 262nd most popular biography from Estonia (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Estonian Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Peeter Järvelaid ranks 556 out of 561. Before him are Wendy Beckett, Janusz Kurtyka, Stephen Turnbull, Adam Tooze, Allan Lichtman, and Stephen Kotkin. After him are Hatoon al-Fassi, Richard Foltz, Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Wood, John Komlos, and Adrian Goldsworthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Peeter Järvelaid ranks 723. Before him are Robert de Castella, Harri Stojka, Jermaine Stewart, Mohamed Chaïb, Ota Zaremba, and Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie. After him are Danny Antonucci, Bogdan Musioł, Hilda Solis, Jacky Rosen, Hugh Dallas, and Connie Carpenter-Phinney.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Peeter Järvelaid ranks 262 out of 351. Before him are Martin Helme (1976), Marya Roxx (1986), Urmas Paet (1974), Ilmar Raag (1968), Jüri Luik (1966), and Urmas Reinsalu (1975). After him are Maret Ani (1982), Kerli (1987), Eda-Ines Etti (1981), Doris Kareva (1958), Anneli Ott (1976), and Sergei Pareiko (1977).

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Among HISTORIANS In Estonia

Among historians born in Estonia, Peeter Järvelaid ranks 3. Before him are Aleksey Shakhmatov (1864), and Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa (1885).

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