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University of Tartu The University of Tartu (UT; ; ) is a public research university located in the city of Tartu, Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is also the largest and oldest university in the country.

Academia Gustaviana (1632–1665)

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(illustris, 1632–1633) * Andreas Virginius (1633) * Heinrich Hein (1633–1634) * Johann Below (1634) * Michael Savonius (prorector, 1634–1635) * Georg Manzel (prorector, 1635–1636) * Georg Manzel (1636) * Lorenz Luden (1636–1637) * Peter Schomer (1637–1638) * Salomon Matthiae (1638) * Andreas Virginius (1638–1639) * Heinrich Hein (1639–1640) * Johann Below (1641–1641) * Andreas Virginius (1641–1642) * Lorenz Luden (1642–1643) * Johannes Ericsson (1643–1644) * Salomon Matthiae (1644–1645) * Andreas Virginius (1645–1646) * Heinrich Hein (1648–1649) * Salomon Matthiae (1649–1650) * Sebastian Wirdig (1650–1651) * Johannes Stiernstråle (1651–1652) * Lorenz Luden (1652–1653) * Joachim Schelen (1653–1654) * Johannes Stiernstråle (1654–1655) * Heinrich Hein (1655–1656) * Andreas Virginius (prorector, in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

, 1657) * Georg Preuss (prorector, Tallinn, 1658) * Gabriel Elffring (prorector, Tallinn, 1659–1660) * Georg Preuss (prorector, Tallinn, 1661–1662) * Gabriel Elffring (prorector, Tallinn, 1663–1665)

Academia Gustavo-Carolina (1690–1710)

* Olaus Moberg (1690) * Carl Lund (1690–1691) * Lars Micrander (1691) * Gustav Carlholm (1691–1692) * Crispin Jernfeld (1692) * Olaus Skragge (1692–1693) * Gabriel Skragge (1693) *

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(1693–1694) * Sven Cameenhjelm (1694) * Sven Dimberg (1694–1695) * Michael Dau (1695) * Olaus Moberg (1695–1696) * Olaus Skragge (1696) * Jakob Friedrich Below (1696–1697) * Gabriel Skragge (1697) * Lars Molin (1697–1698) *

(1698) * Sven Cameenhjelm (1698–1699) * Michael Dau (in

Pärnu Pärnu () is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. Situated in southwest Estonia, Pärnu is located south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and west of Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu. The city sits off the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of ...

, 1699–1700) * Daniel Sarcovius (Pärnu, 1700) * Daniel Eberhard (Pärnu, 1700) * Olaus Moberg (Pärnu, 1700–1701) * Sven Cameenhjelm (Pärnu, 1701) * Lars Molin (Pärnu, 1701–1702) * Michael Dau (Pärnu, 1702) * Johan Folcher (Pärnu, 1702–1703) * Samuel Auseen (Pärnu, 1703) * Daniel Sarcovius (Pärnu, 1703–1704) * Anders Palmrooth (Pärnu, 1704) * Erik Fahlenius (Pärnu, 1704–1705) * Samuel Auseen (Pärnu, 1705) * Lars Braun (Pärnu, 1705–1706) * Johan Folcher (Pärnu, 1706–1707) * Jakob Wilde (Pärnu, 1707) * Ingemund Bröms (Pärnu, 1707–1708) *

Conrad Quensel Conrad Quensel (10 December 1767 – 22 August 1806) was a Swedish naturalist. Biography Quensel was born at Åsbo in Skåne, Sweden. He was the son of Jakob Quensel (1724–1802) and Ulrika Benedikta Billberg (1739–1806). His father was a ...

(Pärnu, 1708) * Nicolaus Wiraeus (Pärnu, 1708–1709) * Carl Schultén (Pärnu, 1709) * Elof Holstenius (Pärnu, 1709–1710)

Kaiserliche Universität zu Dorpat (1802–1893)

* Georg Friedrich von Parrot (prorector, 1802–1803) * Georg Friedrich von Parrot (1803) * Daniel Georg Balk (1803–1804) * Adam Christian Gaspari (1804–1805) * Georg Friedrich von Parrot (1805–1806) * Carl Friedrich Meyer (1806–1808) * Christian Friedrich von Deutsch (1809–1810) * David Hieronymus Grindel (1810–1812) * Georg Friedrich von Parrot (1812–1813) * Martin Ernst von Styx (prorector, 1813–1814) * Martin Ernst von Styx (1814) * Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (1814–1816) * Christian Steltzer (1816) * Ferdinand Giese (prorector, 1816–1817) * Ferdinand Giese (1817–1818) *

Gustav von Ewers Johann Philipp Gustav von Ewers or Evers (27 July 1779 – 20 November 1830) was a German legal historian and the founder of Russian legal history as a scholarly discipline. Ewers was a farmer’s son from the village of Amelunxen (now a part o ...

(1818–1830) * Friedrich Wilhelm von Parrot (prorector, 1830–1831) * Friedrich Wilhelm von Parrot (1831–1834) * Johann Christian Moier (1834–1836) * Christian Friedrich Neue (1836–1839) * Karl Christian Ulmann (1839–1841) *

Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann (; 1 July 1801 – 21 April 1877) was a German physiologist, anatomist, and philosopher. He specialized in the study of the nervous and optic system. Biography Alfred Wilhelm Volkmann was born in Leipzig, and enrolled in ...

(prorector, 1841–1842) *

(1842) * Christian Friedrich Neue (1843–1851) * Eduard Haffner (1851–1858) * Friedrich von Bidder (1858–1865) *

Guido Samson von Himmelstiern Hermann Guido von Samson-Himmelstjerna; name sometimes given as Guido Samson von Himmelstiern (, Korast – , Dorpat) was a Baltic German Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of t ...

(1865–1868) * Georg Philipp von Oettingen (1868–1876) * Ottomar Meykov (1876–1881) * Eduard von Wahl (1881–1885) * Alexander Schmidt (1885–1890) * Ottomar Meykov (1890–1892) * Anton Budilovich (1892–1901)

Kaiserliche Universität Jurjew (1893–1918)

* Anton Budilovich (1892–1901) * Aleksandr Filippov (1901–1903) * Grigori Levitski (1903–1905) * Jevgeni Passek (1905–1908) * Vissarion Aleksejev (prorector, 1908–1909) * Vissarion Aleksejev 1909–1914) * Pjotr Pustoroslev (1915–1917) * Vissarion Aleksejev (1917–1918)

Landesuniversität Dorpat (1918)

* Karl Dehio (1918)

Eesti Vabariigi Tartu Ülikool (1919–1940)

Heinrich Koppel Henrik Koppel (Germanized as Heinrich Koppel; 29 December 1863 Tõnuküla, Uusna Parish – 14 December 1944 Tallinn) was an Estonian medical researcher who served as a rector of the University of Tartu. He was involved in conservation and was a ...

(1920–1928) *

Johan Kõpp Johan Kõpp (9 November 1874, Holdre, Kreis Fellin – 21 October 1970, Stockholm) was an Estonian bishop and head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church 1939–1944. Biography Kõpp went to high school at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Ta ...

(1928–1937) * Richard Hugo Kaho (1938–1940) * Heinrich Riikoja (1940)

Eesti Omavalitsuse Tartu Ülikool (1941–1944)

Edgar Kant Edgar Kant (21 February 1902, Tallinn – 16 October 1978, Lund) was an Estonian geographer and economist. He laid the foundation for Estonian urban geography. In 1928 he graduated from the University of Tartu. From 1934 he was lecturer (from 1 ...

(temporary, 1941–1944)

Tartu Riiklik Ülikool (1940–1941 and 1944–1989)

Hans Kruus Hans Johannes Kruus (22 October 1891 – 30 June 1976) was an Estonian historian, academic and politician. As well as sitting in the Estonian parliament and the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Estonia in 1940 ...

(1940–1941 ja 1944) * Alfred Koort (1944–1951) * Feodor Klement (1951–1970) * Arnold Koop (1970–1988)

Tartu Ülikool (since 1989)

* Jüri Kärner (1988–1993) * Peeter Tulviste (1993–1998) *

Jaak Aaviksoo Jaak Aaviksoo (born 11 January 1954) is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). Aaviksoo has been the Estonian Minister of Defence and Minister of Educa ...

(1998–2006) *

Tõnu Lehtsaar Tõnu Lehtsaar (born 2 May 1960, Tartu) is an Estonian psychologist. In 1983, he graduated from Tartu State University in psychology. From 2000 until 2016, he was a professor of psychology of religion at the University of Tartu. From 2006 to 20 ...

(acting, 2006–2007) *

Alar Karis Alar Karis (; born 26 March 1958) is an Estonian molecular geneticist, developmental biologist, civil servant and politician who, since 11 October 2021, has served as the sixth president of Estonia. Prior to presidency Karis was born in Tar ...

(2007–2012) * Volli Kalm (2012–2017, died in office) *

(acting, 2017–2018) * Toomas Asser (2018–)

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Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...