Priit Raudkivi (historian)

Priit Raudkivi (born November 4, 1954) is an Estonian historian.

Education
Raudkivi graduated from Tartu State University as a historian in 1980. He received his doctorate in 1987.

Career
From 1980 to 1981, he worked in the Estonian Central State Archives. He started working at the Estonian History Institute in 1981. He has lectured at the University of Tartu, the Estonian Institute of Humanities, and Tallinn University on Estonia and the European Middle Ages, as well as the early history of the Baltic countries. Raudkivi is mainly engaged in studying the history of Estonia, Latvia, and Britain. He has written several works about the kings of England, as well as a lengthy study of the early Livonian Diet. He is also the author of several school textbooks.

Awards

 * 2011: Order of Merit of Tallinn University

Family
Raudkivi is the son of the actor Priit Raudkivi (1920–1970) and the radio journalist Hilda Raudkivi (1927–1996).