Viktors Dāboliņš

Viktors Dāboliņš is a historian and numismatist who defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Tartu in 2023. His research focuses on the early modern history of Livonia and Courland in the 16th–18th centuries, specifically, history of finance and economy under the Polish rule, as well as archival studies and archaeology. He has published numerous annotated source publications, a coin and medal catalogue, biographical treatises, and edited collections of numismatic articles.

From autumn 2025, he has been a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, as participating researcher under the aegis of the research project “Connections, transition, change: nobilitas haereditaria ac litteraria in the emergence of early modern literature in Polish and Swedish Livonia” (PRG1926, see the project`s home page). With expert knowledge of Riga source materials, in this project on noble literature, he focuses on compiling biographies of prominent ennobled or noble authors of Livonia and Courland (e.g. Zacharias Stopius) for the handbook “Nobility and literature in the Baltic countries in the early modern period”.