Peterson was the first student at the then German-language University of Tartu to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

A precursor to the academy had been a Jesuit grammar school Gymnasium Dorpatense, founded by Stefan Batory ( then king of Poland ) in 1583 and existing to 1601, when Tartu ( Dorpat ) was under Polish rule.

He was born at Dorpat ( today Tartu ) in Livonia ( then a province of Russia, now in Estonia ) where his father, Theodosius Harnack, held a professorship of pastoral theology.

The first Latvian corporation, Lettonia was founded in 1870 at the University of Tartu ( then Dorpat ).

From his earliest years, Hackenschmidt devoted himself to physical development, particularly at the Secondary Science School ( Realschule of Dorpat, as Tartu was then known ), where he took advantage of the gymnasium.

He attended the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia, and then the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia.

However, he also received and accepted a call to a Chair at the University of Tartu ( then Dorpat ), the German-language university in the then Russian province of Livonia.

He studied Medicine at the University of Tartu ( then Jurjev ), then Philosophy in St. Petersburg and at the University of Marburg in Germany, where he took his Ph. D. and Habilitation.

In 1874-1876, he taught at the University of Tartu, then at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, since 1884 at the University of Breslau, and from 1887 at the University of Göttingen, which was his final appointment.

Oettingen was born at Visusti, near Dorpat, the member of a Livonian Baltic German noble family that produced many scholars, including his brothers Georg von Oettingen, professor of medicine at the University of Tartu ( then Dorpat ), and Arthur von Oettingen, professor of physique in Dorpat and Leipzig.

He worked at Dorpat Observatory, in today's Tartu, Estonia, and then in 1879 worked at Pulkovo Observatory, becoming director of the observatory from 1895 until his death.

Struve was born in 1819 in Dorpat ( Tartu ), then Russian Empire, as the third son out of eighteen sons and daughters of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Emilie Wall ( 1796 – 1834 ).

He attended gymnasium in Vyborg and in 1872 entered the Tartu University ( Tartu was known then as Dorpat ).

It then expanded on the study of the positions and motion of stars, in particular single and double stars lying within the angular range of the Tartu Observatory.

He received his doctorate from the University of Tartu, and then studied natural science in Berlin and Königsberg.

He remained in Tartu until he retired in 1865, and then returned to Germany.

This specification was needed in order to distinguish the town from the earlier established fortress of Yuryev ( nowadays Tartu ), at the time located in the woods in what is now Estonia and then the biggest Russian settlement in the territory of the Chuds.

Lang received elementary and high school education in Tallinn English College ( then known as 7th High School of Tallinn ) and graduated cum laude from the University of Tartu in 1980, acquiring a degree in law .< ref name =" ministryofjustice ">

So to avoid the worst, in 1938, the then minister of culture, Giuseppe Bottai, offered Montanelli the job of director of the Institute of Culture in Tallinn, Estonia, and lecturer in Italian at the University of Tartu.

For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan ( 1874 – 1883 ), Dorpat ( as Tartu, Estonia was then known ) ( 1883 – 1893 ), Kraków ( 1893 – 1899 ) in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg ( 1900 – 1918 ), where he was known as Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ ( Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene ).

Subsequently known as Dorpat ( Tarbatum ), Tartu became a commercial centre of considerable importance during the later Middle Ages and the capital of the semi-independent Bishopric of Dorpat.

With Estonian independence after World War I, the city officially became known by the Estonian name Tartu.

Her mother received a doctorate in ophthalmology at the University of Berlin in 1908 and became the first female physician in Lithuania, while her father had received his medical degree from the University of Tartu in 1910.

In 1690 Tartu became a university town again.

Since Estonia became independent in 1918, the University of Tartu has been an Estonian-language institution since 1919.

Under the Russian-Estonian Peace Treaty of Tartu of 1920, a small part of West Ingria became part of the Republic of Estonia.

According to the Treaty of Tartu, the Russian-Estonian state boundary went eastwards of Izborsk and thus the town was part of Estonia from 1920 to early 1945 when, both Russia and Estonia being part of Soviet Union, the Russian SFSR / Estonian SSR boundary was moved westwards and thus Izborsk became part of the Russian SFSR.

In November 1885 he became a docent at the University of Tartu.

In 1991, he returned to Estonia as the founding dean of a new School of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu, which merged into a full-fledged faculty in 1994, and where he also became Professor of Political Science ( 1994 – 1998 ).

Spending his academic career at the University of Tartu ( with the exception of a stint at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland ), he became Professor of Psychophysics in 1992, and is since 2002 Professor of Experimental Psychology.

Unable to find an academic position in Leningrad due to anti-Semitism ( he was unable to apply for a PhD program ), Lotman went to Estonia in 1950 and from 1954 began his work as a lecturer at the Department of Russian language and literature of Tartu University and later became head of the department.

In 1917, Finland became independent and the border was confirmed by the Treaty of Tartu in 1920.

In 1917 he became a Professor of Botany and the director of the botanical gardens at the University of Tartu ( Yuryev ) in Estonia.

As Minister of Foreign Affairs, Niels Helveg Petersen joined the newly created Council of the Baltic Sea States, which in 1993 successfully established the EuroFaculty in Tartu, Riga, and Vilnius, of which he became an active supporter.

In Dorpat ( Tartu ), Wagner " became a follower of Bismarck ’ s policy for unifying Germany under Prussian guidance.

Due to its location on the crossing of land and water routes, Tartu became an important trading center in Ancient Estonia.

It was the fifth university under the Swedish king, after Uppsala University ( 1477 ), the University of Tartu ( 1632, now in Estonia ), the Academy of Åbo ( 1640, now in Finland ), and the University of Greifswald ( founded 1456 ; Swedish 1648 – 1815, now in Germany ).

Beside Uppsala, new universities were founded in more distant parts of the Swedish Realm, the University of Dorpat ( present-day Tartu ) in Estonia ( 1632 ) and the University of Åbo in Finland ( 1640 ).

* October 15 – Official opening of the University of Tartu in Swedish Livonia.

* Fearful of a Swedish attack, the Russians blow up the city of Tartu in Estonia.

In 1604 he captured Dorpat ( Tartu ), defeated the Swedish generals at Biały Kamień in 1604, and was rewarded with the rank of Grand Hetman ( supreme commander ) of Lithuania's army.

On account of the Russian – Swedish war, the University of Tartu moved to Tallinn in 1656 and in 1665 it closed down.

It was the Swedish Empire's third university following Uppsala University, founded in 1477, and the Academia Gustaviana ( now the University of Tartu in Estonia ), founded in 1632.

It was the third university founded in the Swedish Empire, following Uppsala University and the Academia Gustaviana in Dorpat ( predecessor to the University of Tartu in Estonia ).

Ilon Wikland ( born February 5, 1930 in Tartu, Estonia ) is a Swedish artist and illustrator, born in Tartu, Estonia, but raised Haapsalu on Estonia's Baltic coast.

* The University of Tartu in Swedish Livonia is founded.

For example, under the 17th Century Swedish Kings Gustav II Adolf and Charles XI, general elementary education was introduced, the Bible was translated in Estonian and Latvian, and a university was founded in Tartu in southern Estonia.

Having in 1624 been created a baron ( friherre ), receiving the barony of Tuutarhovi in Ingria, Livonia, which had just been added to the Swedish Realm, and in 1629 appointed Governor-General of Livonia, Ingria and Karelia, he was in 1632 appointed chancellor of the new Academia Gustaviana ( University of Tartu ), in addition to his Uppsala chancellorship, and made plans for a new appellate court in Tartu ( in today Estonia ).

In addition to Uppsala and Lund, student nations were also formed at the University of Tartu and Royal Academy of Turku ( now University of Helsinki ), the second and third oldest universities in the Swedish Empire.