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University of Tartu
The University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ülikool) is a public research university in Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia, as well as the largest and oldest university in the country.
The university was founded in 1632 by Gustavus Adolphus, at the time the king of Sweden. Its first chancellor was Baron Johan Skytte, the governor-general of the Swedish province of Livonia.
15,206 students study at the university, of whom over 1,500 are foreigners (10%). Most of the curriculum is instructed in Estonian. There are also 30 programmes taught in English: three at the undergraduate level and 27 at the master's level, including the Erasmus Mundus programme in Excellence in Analytical Chemistry.
The historical buildings of the university are included in the European Heritage Label list as "embodiment of the ideas of a university in the Age of Enlightenment". The university is a member of the Coimbra Group and the Utrecht Network.
The mascot of the university is a blue bird called Tiksu.
The foundation act of the new university in Dorpat (Tartu) was signed on 30 June 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden who was leading a military campaign in Germany at the time, a few months before his death in the Battle of Lützen (16 November 1632). The first chancellor of the university (called alternatively Academia Dorpatensis after its location, or Academia Gustaviana after the founding king) was Baron Johan Skytte (1577–1645), the governor-general of the Swedish provinces of Livonia, Ingria, and Karelia.
The university founded in Tartu in 1632 was at the time the third oldest university in the entire Kingdom of Sweden, following the University of Greifswald in Swedish Pomerania and Uppsala University (in Uppsala, Sweden proper), and preceding the Academy of Åbo (now Turku, Finland). A precursor to the academy had been a Jesuit grammar school Gymnasium Dorpatense, founded by Stefan Batory (then king of Poland–Lithuania) in 1583 and existing to 1601, when Tartu (Dorpat) was under Polish–Lithuanian rule.
The first students matriculated between 20 and 21 April 1632. The opening ceremony of Academia Gustaviana took place on 15 October in the same year. The academy in Tartu functioned with philosophy, law, theology, and medical faculties enjoying the privileges of the University of Uppsala. After the outbreak of the Russo–Swedish war of 1656–1658, the university was moved from Tartu to Tallinn. It was closed down in 1665, only to be re-opened in Tartu again in 1690.
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University of Tartu
The University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ülikool) is a public research university in Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia, as well as the largest and oldest university in the country.
The university was founded in 1632 by Gustavus Adolphus, at the time the king of Sweden. Its first chancellor was Baron Johan Skytte, the governor-general of the Swedish province of Livonia.
15,206 students study at the university, of whom over 1,500 are foreigners (10%). Most of the curriculum is instructed in Estonian. There are also 30 programmes taught in English: three at the undergraduate level and 27 at the master's level, including the Erasmus Mundus programme in Excellence in Analytical Chemistry.
The historical buildings of the university are included in the European Heritage Label list as "embodiment of the ideas of a university in the Age of Enlightenment". The university is a member of the Coimbra Group and the Utrecht Network.
The mascot of the university is a blue bird called Tiksu.
The foundation act of the new university in Dorpat (Tartu) was signed on 30 June 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden who was leading a military campaign in Germany at the time, a few months before his death in the Battle of Lützen (16 November 1632). The first chancellor of the university (called alternatively Academia Dorpatensis after its location, or Academia Gustaviana after the founding king) was Baron Johan Skytte (1577–1645), the governor-general of the Swedish provinces of Livonia, Ingria, and Karelia.
The university founded in Tartu in 1632 was at the time the third oldest university in the entire Kingdom of Sweden, following the University of Greifswald in Swedish Pomerania and Uppsala University (in Uppsala, Sweden proper), and preceding the Academy of Åbo (now Turku, Finland). A precursor to the academy had been a Jesuit grammar school Gymnasium Dorpatense, founded by Stefan Batory (then king of Poland–Lithuania) in 1583 and existing to 1601, when Tartu (Dorpat) was under Polish–Lithuanian rule.
The first students matriculated between 20 and 21 April 1632. The opening ceremony of Academia Gustaviana took place on 15 October in the same year. The academy in Tartu functioned with philosophy, law, theology, and medical faculties enjoying the privileges of the University of Uppsala. After the outbreak of the Russo–Swedish war of 1656–1658, the university was moved from Tartu to Tallinn. It was closed down in 1665, only to be re-opened in Tartu again in 1690.
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