Eduard Haffner (Johann Samuel Eduard von Haffner; 27 August 1804 – 25 January 1889) was a

Baltic German Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...

educationist. 1851–1857 he was the

rector of Tartu University {{Short description, none List of rectors of the University of Tartu. Academia Gustaviana (1632–1665) * Jakob Skytte (illustris, 1632–1633) * Andreas Virginius (1633) * Heinrich Hein (1633–1634) * Johann Below (1634) * Michael Savonius ( ...

. He was born in

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1804 births 1889 deaths Academic staff of the University of Tartu Rectors of the University of Tartu Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire Rectors of universities in the Russian Empire {{Estonia-academic-bio-stub