University of Tartu facts for kids
University of Tartu is the main university in Estonia. It is in Tartu. It is the second oldest university in Northern Europe. It was established in 1632.
The university is particularly famous due to its semiotics school established by Juri Lotman.
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The Old Observatory of Tartu Observatory was completed in 1810. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve worked here.
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The Baltic German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909.
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In Spanish: Universidad de Tartu para niños
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