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This is a list of notable people associated with the
University of Tartu at
Tartu,
Estonia.
Notable lecturers and professors
Nobel laureate
Humanities and social sciences
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Jüri Allik, psychologist
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Walter Anderson, folklorist
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Paul Ariste, linguist
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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
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Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist
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Vladimir Dal, lexicographer
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Gustav von Ewers, legal historian
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Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar, supported by Albert Einstein
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Theodosius Harnack, Lutheran theologian
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Siim Kallas, economist and politician (EU Commissioner; former Prime Minister)
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Andres Kasekamp, historian
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Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
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Jaan Kross, writer
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Kalevi Kull, biosemiotician
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Madis Kõiv, philosopher and physicist
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Helga Kurm, Dean of the Pedagogical Division
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Marju Lepajõe, classical philologist and religious historian
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Étienne Laspeyres, economist and statistician
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Wilhelm Lexis, economist, insurance scholar
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Eero Loone, philosopher
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Mihhail Lotman, semiotician
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Juri Lotman, semiotician, historian of literature
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Uku Masing, theologian and poet
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Zara Mints, literary scholar
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Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern, philologist
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Alexander von Oettingen, Lutheran theologian, famous as statistics theoretician
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Ludwig Preller, philologist and antiquarian
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Villem Raam, art historian
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Konstantin Ramul, psychologist
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Leonid Stolovich, philosopher (aesthetic)
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Rein Taagepera, political scientist
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Gustav Teichmüller, philosopher
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Peeter Torop, semiotician
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Grigol Tsereteli, classicist and papyrologist
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Jüri Uluots, lawyer and politician
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Jaan Valsiner, psychologist
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Alexander Vasiliev, Byzantinist and Arabist
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Adolph Wagner, economist and social policy scholar
Natural science
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Marlon Dumas, computer scientist
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Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist
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Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
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Friedrich Bidder, physiologist and anatomist
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Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge, botanist
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Karl Friedrich Burdach, biologist
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Jaan Einasto, astrophysicist
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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist and explorer
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Moses Wolf Goldberg, chemist
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Germain Henri Hess, chemist
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Jaan Kalviste, chemist, mineralogist, educator and translator
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Toomas Kivisild, geneticist
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Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
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Kalevi Kull, biologist
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Olevi Kull, ecologist
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Eerik Kumari, ornithologist
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Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist, embryologist
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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (professor of natural sciences, 1811–1836), botanist
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Anders Lindstedt (1854-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science.
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Teodor Lippmaa, botanist
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Viktor Masing, ecologist
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Andres Metspalu, biotechnologist
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Carl Anton von Meyer, botanist
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Ferdinand Morawitz, entomologist
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Arthur von Oettingen, physicist
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Georg von Oettingen, physician
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Ernst Öpik, astronomer
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Georg Friedrich Parrot, physicist
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August Rauber, anatomist
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Alma Johanna Ruubel, mathematician
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Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist
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Carl Schmidt, chemist
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Oswald Schmiedeberg, pharmacologist
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Peter Hermann Stillmark, founder of
lectinology
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, astronomer
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Eduard Toll, polar explorer
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Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, botanist
Rectors
Notable alumni
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Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer
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Karl Ernst von Baer, zoologist and "father" of embryology
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Kārlis Balodis, Latvian economist, author of the
civilian rationing
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Krišjānis Barons, Latvian folklorist
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Pan Halippa, politician in Moldova and Romania
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Adolf von Harnack, Protestant theologian and science administrator
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Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher
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Germain Henri Hess, physician and chemist
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Jakob Hurt, folklorist
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Hermann Johansen, ornithologist
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Küllike Jürimäe, judge at the
Court of Justice of the European Union
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Elise Käer-Kingisepp, physician and pharmacologist
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Wassily Kandinsky, abstract artist
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Jaan Kaplinski, poet
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Paul Keres, chess Grandmaster
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Woldemar Kernig, internist, neurologist
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Hermann von Keyserling, philosopher
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Alberts Kviesis, Latvian statesman
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Heinrich Lenz, physicist
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Anne Lill, classical philologist
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Emil Mattiesen (1875–1939), composer, pianist and philosopher
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Gerhard von Maydell (1835 – 1894), explorer, cartographer and ethnologist
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Lennart Meri, Estonian President
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Leo Michelson, Latvian-American painter
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Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian linguist
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Stepanos Nazarian, Armenian publisher
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Tõnu Õnnepalu, author, poet
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Ernst Öpik, astronomer
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Friedrich Parrot, naturalist
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Juhan Parts, Estonian Economic and former Prime Minister
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Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
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Ion Pelivan, Foreign Minister of Moldova
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Kristjan Jaak Peterson, linguist
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Nikolay Pirogov, medical doctor
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Vera Poska-Grünthal, lawyer and feminist
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Georg von Rausch, historian
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Alfons Rebane, military commander
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Urmas Reinsalu (born 1975), politician
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Karl Ristikivi, writer
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Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer
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Paul Saagpakk, linguist
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Alexander Schmidt (physiologist)
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Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer
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Josephine Serre, first woman to receive a dentistry degree from the University of Tartu, which occurred in 1814
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Otto Strandman, Estonian Prime Minister and Head of State
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Apolinary Szeluto, Polish composer
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Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann, pioneer physical
metallurgist
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A. H. Tammsaare, eminent Estonian writer
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Otto Tief, Estonian Prime Minister
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Jaanus Teppan, olympic
cross-country skier
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Valentin Tomberg, "mystic" and "magician"
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Jakob von Uexküll, biologist
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Krišjānis Valdemārs, Latvian writer
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Mall Vaasma, mycologist
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Eduards Veidenbaums, Latvian poet
Honorary doctorates
References
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^ The National Archives of Estonia. Serre, J, student file nr EAA.402.2.23142