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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.

  • Kogu perega.

    Main building

  • Tartu Observatoorium

    Observatory

  • Uus Anatoomikum

    New Anatomicum

  • TÜ kunstimuuseum, sinine saal

    Art museum

  • TÜRKA Vanemuise suures majas -- tants Kodukotus

    Folk dance

  • Tudengite kevadpäevad 2009 - paadiralli 05

    Students' spring days

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  • Album von Dorpat, TKM 0031H 05, crop

    The university in 1860, during its 'Golden Age'.

  • Old Observatory, Tartu, April 2012

    The Old Observatory of Tartu Observatory was completed in 1810. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve worked here.

  • Wilhelm Ostwald

    The Baltic German chemist Wilhelm Ostwald received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909.

  • Tartu university christmas

    Tartu University main building during Christmas (2006)

  • Lossi 36 hoone

    Faculty of Social Sciences

  • TÜ mat-inf hoone

    Institute of Mathematics and Statistics

  • UT Stadium 2008

    University track and field

  • Näituse 20

    Iuridicum, law building

  • Chemicum ja Füüsikum

    Chemicum and Physicum

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Universidad de Tartu para niños

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