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This is a list of people associated with the University of Tartu at Tartu, Estonia.

Contents

Notable lecturers & professors

Nobel laureate

Humanities and social sciences

Natural science

From Life Sciences

Notable students

Honorary doctorates

Notable lecturers & professors

Nobel laureate

★ Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Humanities and social sciences

★ Jüri Allik, psychologist

★ Walter Anderson, folklorist

★ Paul Ariste, linguist

★ Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist

★ Vladimir Dahl, lexicographer

★ Gustav von Ewers, legal historian

★ Lazar Gulkowitsch, Jewish Studies scholar, supported by Albert Einstein

★ Theodosius Harnack, Lutheran theologian

★ Siim Kallas, economist and politician (EU Commissioner; former Prime Minister)

★ Jaan Kross, writer

★ Etienne Laspeyres, economist and statistician

★ Wilhelm Lexis, economist, insurance scholar

★ Yuri Lotman, semiotician

★ Uku Masing, theologian and poet

★ Alexander von Oettingen, Lutheran theologian, famous as statistics theoretician

★ Ludwig Preller, philologist and antiquarian

★ Konstantin Ramul, psychologist

★ Leonid Stolovich, philosopher (aesthetic)

★ Rein Taagepera, political scientist

★ Gustav Teichmüller, philosopher

★ Peeter Tulviste, psychologist

★ Grigol Tsereteli, classicist and papyrologist

★ Jaan Valsiner, psychologist

★ Adolph Wagner, economist and social policy scholar

★ Alexander Vasiliev, Byzantinist and Arabist

Natural science

★ Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist

★ Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon

★ Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge, botanist

★ Carl Schmidt, chemist

★ Jaan Einasto, astrophysicist

★ Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist and explorer

★ Germain Henri Hess, chemist

★ Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist

★ Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (professor of natural sciences, 1811–1836), botanist

★ Carl Anton von Meyer, botanist

★ Arthur von Oettingen, physicist

★ Georg von Oettingen, physician

★ Ernst Öpik, astronomer

★ Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist

★ Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, astronomer

★ Eduard Toll, polar explorer

★ Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, botanist

From Life Sciences

★ Richard Villems, Geneticist

★ Andres Metspalu, Biotechnology

★ Maris Laan, Genetics

★ Juhan Sedman, Biology

★ Toomas Kivisild, Geneticist

★ Ene Metspalu, Evolutionary Biology

Notable students

★ Khachatur Abovian, Armenian writer

★ Karl Ernst von Baer, zoologist and "father" of embryology

★ Krišjānis Barons, Latvian folklorist

★ Adolf von Harnack, Protestant theologian and science administrator

★ Nicolai Hartmann, philosopher

★ Germain Henri Hess, physician and chemist

★ Wassily Kandinsky, abstract artist

★ Paul Keres, chess player

★ Ilmar Koppel, chemist.

★ Alberts Kviesis, Latvian statesman

★ Heinrich Lenz, physicist

★ Lennart Meri, Estonian President

★ Leo Michelson, painter

★ Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian linguist

★ Stepanos Nazarian, influential Armenian publisher

★ Juhan Parts, Estonian Economic and former Prime Minister

★ Karl Ristikivi, writer

★ Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer

★ Leopold von Schrenck, zoologist, geographer and ethnographer

★ Otto Strandman, Estonian Prime Minister and Head of State

★ Anton Hansen Tammsaare, eminent Estonian writer

★ Valentin Tomberg, "mystic" and "magician"

★ Kri%C5%A1j%C4%81nis Valdem%C4%81rs, Latvian writer

★ Eduards Veidenbaums, Latvian poet

★ Voldemārs Zamuels, Latvian prime minister (1924)

Honorary doctorates

★ Umberto Eco, semiotician and novelist

★ Otto Kaiser, Protestant theologian

★ Arvo Pärt, classical composer

★ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

★ Ulrich Knauer, mathematician