Juhan Kahk

1928–1998 (age 70)

Biography

Juhan Kahk (1 August 1928 – 28 June 1998) was an Estonian historian and member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences whose research focused on agrarian and peasant history in Estonia and the Baltic region. He was elected a corresponding member of the academy in 1969 and became a full member (academician) in 1978. Kahk served as director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences (1968–1973).

Kahk published internationally, including an article in Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (1973) and an English-language methodological discussion in Social Science History (1984). Later international discussions of quantitative history and early computer-assisted history research cite Kahk's work and describe him among Soviet-era pioneers using computers in historical research.

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