# Tõnu-Andrus Tannberg

Tõnu-Andrus Tannberg (born September 22, 1961) is an Estonian historian and a professor of Estonian history at the University of Tartu. He has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 2012.

## Education

In 1981, Tannberg started studying at the University of Tartu, where he graduated in 1986. In 1996, he defended his dissertation Maakaitseväekohustus Balti kubermangudes 19. sajandi 1. poolel (1806–1856) (Militia Duty in the Baltic Provinces in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, 1806–1856), supervised by Helmut Piirimäe, in the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tartu.

## Career

From 1986 to 1994, Tannberg was a history teacher at Puka High School [et], from 1990 to 2000 a teacher and lecturer at the University of Tartu, from 1995 to 1997 the head of the Estonian Historical Archives, and from 1997 to 1999 its deputy director. From 1999 to 2011, he was an adviser to the state archivist at the National Archives of Estonia, and from 2000 to 2013 he was an associate professor at the University of Tartu's Institute of History and Archeology [et]. Since 2012, he has been the research director of the National Archives, and since 2013 a professor at the Institute of History and Archeology.
Tannberg was elected a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 2012 in the field of history, and he belongs to the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the academy.

## Research

Tannberg's main areas of research are the political and recent history of the Soviet Union, especially the Estonian SSR. He also studies the history of the Russian Empire and the military history of the Baltic States. He has published several volumes and is a coauthor of textbooks.

## Memberships

Tannberg was a member of the research council of the Estonian Literary Museum from 1998 to 2020 and the chairman of the research council of the National Archives between 1999 and 2013. He has also been a member of the editorial board of the historical culture magazine Tuna [et] and a board member of the non-profit organization S-Keskus [et] since 1998, and since 1998 he has also been the editor-in-chief of the serial publication Uurimusi ja allikmaterjale Eesti sõjaajaloost (Research and Source Materials from Estonian Military History). In 1999, he joined the Estonian Academic Historical Society (Estonian: Akadeemiline Ajalooselts), and since 2000 he has been a member of the board of the Learned Estonian Society. Since 2009, Tannberg has been a member of the Association of Estonian Archivists (Estonian: Eesti Arhivaaride Ühing), since 2011 a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of Estonian Military History (Estonian: Eesti Sõjaajaloo Aastaraamat), and since 2013 a member of the advisory board of the Estonian National Museum and the research advisory board of the Estonian History Museum. From 2010 to 2014, he was a member of the advisory council of the Minister of Defense. Since 2017, he has been a member of the council of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, and since 2020 a member of the research council of the Estonian Maritime Museum and the editorial board of the journal Acta Historica Tallinnensia [et].