Enn Küng


Enn Küng is an Estonian historian and lecturer at the University of Tartu.

Early life and education

Enn Küng was born in Tallinn. He studied history at Tartu State University from 1982 to 1988. He received his master's degree in 1992 and his doctorate in 2001.

Career

From 1992 to 2005, Küng worked at the Estonian Historical Archives. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the University of Tartu, and since 2005 he has been an associate professor at the Department of Estonian History. Küng has mainly researched the early modern period of Estonia and Sweden. He is particularly interested in economic and trade policy. In 2002 he received an award for the best Estonian history book for his doctoral thesis.
From 2000 to 2010, Küng was the chairman of the Academic Historical Society. In 2013, a new version of the third volume of the series Eesti ajaloo, edited and compiled by Küng, was published.

Awards and recognitions

Publications

  • 1992: Võõrastekaubanduse reguleerimine Narvas ja linna suhted Läänega XVII sajandi teisel poolel. Master's thesis. Supervisor: Helmut Piirimäe. Tartu, 1992.
  • 1996: Arnold Soom. Mälestusi.Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv.
  • 2000: Narvaer Bürger- und Einwohnerbuch 1581–1704. Dortmund: Forschungsstelle Ostmitteleuropa.
  • 2001: Rootsi majanduspoliitika Narva kaubanduse küsimuses 17. sajandi teisel poolel. Dissertation. Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv.
  • 2002: Läänemere provintside arenguperspektiivid Rootsi suurriigis 16./17. sajandil. Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv.
  • 2004: "Über die Grösse der Bevölkerung Narvas und Ivangorods in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts". In: Aus der Geschichte Alt-Livlands: Festschrift für Heinz von zur Mühlen zum 90. Geburtstag. Münster: LIT.
  • 2005: "Johann Köler und die Druckerei in Narva 1695 bis 1705". In: Buch und Bildung im Baltikum: Festschrift für Paul Kaegbein zum 80. Geburtstag. Munich: LIT.
  • 2006: Läänemere provintside arenguperspektiivid Rootsi suurriigis 16/17. sajandil. II. Tartu: Eesti Ajalooarhiiv.
  • 2008: Eesti rahvuslik postiteenistus 90. Tartu: Eesti Post, Postimuuseum.
  • 2022: Mercuriuse ja Marsi vahel: Hansalinn Tallinn Rootsi riigi haardes. 1561–1632. Tallinn: Tallinna Linnaarhiiv.