Estonian Naturalists' Society ( et, Eesti Looduseuurijate Selts, ELUS) is the oldest

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

-based society of naturalists. It was founded in 1853, and since establishing has been the major scientific organisation focusing on natural history of Estonia. The Society is based in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...

. It has been associated with

Tartu University The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

and the

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

. The society still operates (2018) and claims to be the oldest scientific society in the Baltic states.History
, Estonian Naturalists Society, retrieved 31 December 2013 The Society owns a rich library that is specialised on the publications about .

Presidents of the Society

* Carl Eduard von Liphardt (1853–1862) * Guido Samson von Himmelstiern (1862–1868) * Carl Johann von Seidlitz (1868–1869) *

Karl Ernst von Baer Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn ( – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a ...

(1869–1876) *

Friedrich von Bidder Georg Friedrich Karl Heinrich Bidder ( – ) was a Baltic German physiologist and anatomist from what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire. In 1834 he received his doctorate from the University of Dorpat, where he beca ...

(1877–1890) *

Johann Georg Dragendorff Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff (August 8, 1836 – April 7, 1898) was a German pharmacist and chemist born in Rostock. Education He earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Rostock in 1861, and following graduation worked for t ...

(1890–1893) * Carl Schmidt (1894) *

Edmund August Friedrich Russow Edmund August Friedrich Russow (russian: Эдму́нд Фридрихович Ру́ссов, translit=Èdmúnd Fridrichovič Rússov; – ) was a Baltic German biologist. Academic career Son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow stu ...

(1895–1897) *

Julius von Kennel Julius von Kennel (10 June 1854 – 24 January 1939) was a German zoologist and entomologist born in Schwegenheim. He studied at the University of Würzburg, where he came under the influence of zoologist Karl Semper (1832-1893). Later, he ...

(1898–1899) * Karl Gottfried Constantin Dehio (1899–1901) * Grigori Levitski (1901–1905) * Nikolai Kuznetsov (1905–1911) * Jevgeni Shepilevski (1911–1918) * Boriss Sreznevski (1918) *

Georg Landesen Georg may refer to: * ''Georg'' (film), 1997 *Georg (musical), Estonian musical * Georg (given name) * Georg (surname) * , a Kriegsmarine coastal tanker See also * George (disambiguation) George may refer to: People * George (given name) * ...

(1918–1923) * Johannes Piiper (1923–1929) * Paul Kogerman (1929–1936) * Hugo Kaho (1936–1939) * Teodor Lippmaa (1939–1942) * Armin Öpik (1944) * Karl Orviku (1946–1952) * Harald Haberman (1952–1954) *

Eerik Kumari Eerik Kumari born Erik Mathias Sits (7 March 1912 – 8 January 1984) was a biologist, and pioneer of ornithology and nature conservation in Estonia. He was born in Kirbla, Lihula Parish. He was a director of the Institute of Zoology and Bota ...

(1954–1964) * Hans-Voldemar Trass (1964–1973 and 1985–1991) *

Erast Parmasto Erast Parmasto (28 October 1928 – 24 April 2012) was a noted Estonian mycologist, bioscientist and botanist and onetime director of the Estonian Institute of Zoology and Botany. Parmasto was born in Nõmme. He became a member of the Estonia ...

(1973–1976) *

Kuulo Kalamees Kuulo Kalamees (born 15 April 1934 in Tartu) is an Estonian mycologist. Since 1959, he has taught at the University of Tartu and the Estonian University of Life Sciences; since 1997 Emeritus Professor. He has described several genera, e.g. ''T ...

(1976–1985) *

Kalevi Kull Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1975. His earlier work dealt with ethology and field ecology. He has studied the mechanisms o ...

(1991–1994) * Tõnu Möls (1994–2004) *

Marek Sammul Marek is the West Slavic (Czech, Polish and Slovak) masculine equivalent of Marcus, Marc or Mark. The name may refer to: * Marek (given name) * Marek (surname) * Marek, the pseudonym of Bulgarian communist Stanke Dimitrov (1889–1944) * The title ...

(2004–2008) * Tõnu Viik (2008–2014) * Oive Tinn (2014–2017) *

Urmas Kõljalg Urmas Kõljalg (born 24 February 1961) is an Estonian biologist, mycologist and university professor. He has recombined the following taxon: * ''Amaurodon aeruginascens ''Amaurodon aeruginascens'' is a species of fungus belonging to the famil ...

(2017–)

References

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