List of Tartu University people

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

Notable lecturers & professors

Nobel laureates

*Wilhelm Ostwald, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
*Dhananjai Kohli, Nobel Prize in Economics

Humanities and social sciences

*Jüri Allik, psychologist
*Walter Anderson, folklorist
*Paul Ariste, linguist
*Karl Bücher, economist and anthropologist
*Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, linguist
*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)
*Madis Kõiv, philosopher and physicist
*Jaan Kross, writer
*Etienne Laspeyres, economist and statistician
*Wilhelm Lexis, economist, insurance scholar
*Juri Lotman, semiotician
*Mihhail Lotman, semiotician
*Uku Masing, theologian and poet
*Zara Mints, literary scientist
*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 Torop, semiotician
*Peeter Tulviste, psychologist
*Grigol Tsereteli, classicist and papyrologist
*Jüri Uluots, lawyer and politician
*Jaan Valsiner, psychologist
*Adolph Wagner, economist and social policy scholar
*Alexander Vasiliev, Byzantinist and Arabist

Natural science

*Wilhelm Anderson, astrophysicist
*Ernst von Bergmann, surgeon
*Friedrich Bidder, physiologist and anatomist
*Alexander Andrejewitsch von Bunge, botanist
*Karl Friedrich Burdach, biologist
*Jaan Einasto, astrophysicist
*Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, biologist and explorer
*Germain Henri Hess, chemist
*Emil Kraepelin, psychiatrist
*Kalevi Kull, semiotician and biologist
*Olevi Kull, ecologist
*Eerik Kumari, ornithologist
*Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, anatomist, embryologist
*Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (professor of natural sciences, 1811–1836), botanist
*Anders Lindstedt (1954-1939) mathematician, astronomer and pioneer of actuarial science.
*Teodor Lippmaa, botanist
*Viktor Masing, ecologist
*Carl Anton von Meyer, botanist
*Arthur von Oettingen, physicist
*Georg von Oettingen, physician
*Ernst Öpik, astronomer
*Georg Friedrich Parrot, physicist
*August Rauber, anatomist
*Matthias Jakob Schleiden, botanist
*Carl Schmidt, chemist
*Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von 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
*Lembit Rägo, physician, clinical pharmacologist

Notable alumni

*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
*Jakob Hurt, folklorist
*Hermann Johansen, ornithologist
*Wassily Kandinsky, abstract artist
*Jaan Kaplinski, poet
*Paul Keres, chess player
*Woldemar Kernig, internist, neurologist
*Hermann von Keyserling, philosopher
*Ilmar Koppel, chemist
*Alberts Kviesis, Latvian statesman
*Heinrich Lenz, physicist
*Lennart Meri, Estonian President
*Leo Michelson, painter
*Kārlis Mīlenbahs, Latvian linguist
*Stepanos Nazarian, Armenian publisher
*Tõnu Õnnepalu, author, poet
*Ernst Öpik, astronomer
*Friedrich Parrot, naturalist
*Juhan Parts, Estonian Economic and former Prime Minister
*Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
*Kristjan Jaak Peterson, linguist
*Georg von Rausch, historian
*Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander
*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
*Otto Tief, Estonian Prime Minister
*Valentin Tomberg, "mystic" and "magician"
*Jakob von Uexküll, biologist
*Krišjānis Valdemārs, Latvian writer
*Eduards Veidenbaums, Latvian poet
*Voldemārs Zamuels, Latvian prime minister (1924)

Honorary doctorates

* Umberto Eco, semiotician and novelist
* Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
* Vello Helk, historian
* Otto Kaiser, Protestant theologian
* Ulrich Knauer, mathematician
* Arvo Pärt, classical composer
* Konstantin Päts, Estonian president
* Thure von Uexküll, semiotician and medical scientist
* Folke Sjöqvist, physician, clinical pharmacologist