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a city of southeastern Estonia that was a member of the Hanseatic League

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--1881b, Die Sprache der Tungusen und das Finnisch-Estnische.--Sitzungsberichte der Gelehrten Ehstnischen Gesellschaft 1881, Dorpat, 111-125.
Struve eventually left Dorpat to become director of Pulkovo Observatory, which he turned into the most advanced astronomical facility in the world.
(5) An der Universitat von Tartu (Dorpat) wurde 1920 der Lehrstuhl fur Estnische und Nordische Archaologie gegrundet, mit Aarne Michael Tallgren als ersten ordentlichen Professor.
The foundation of the monastery of Falkenau [Estonian Valkena] near Dorpat [Tartu] in 1233 by Hermann, bishop of Dorpat, can be explained in the light of missionary activities in the provinces of central Estonia.
Her Warsaw-born linguist Jan Baudoin de Courtenay, professor in Kazan, Dorpat, and Cracow, was the product of five other universities and taught in two empires.
South had been at a disadvantage in his friendly rivalry with Wilhelm Struve of Russia's Dorpat Observatory, for none of South's superb instruments could match the power of Joseph Fraunhofer's 9 1/2-inch lens glass mounted in "the great Dorpat refractor." However, South had plans to regain the lead.
(Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Dorpatensis, B III: 6.) Dorpat.
(28) A few minor points, however, mitigated the otherwise dreary picture: at Dorpat (Iur'ev) University, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the chair in geography and ethnography remained in the humanities; and in Moscow courses in ethnography were still permitted in the Historical-Philological Faculty on an ad hoc basis as voluntary electives.
Like so many double stars for amateur telescopes, it was discovered and first measured by the energetic Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) at Dorpat Observatory in Russia.
For example, D'iakonov was a professor at Dorpat University, while Vinogradov and Miliukov taught in Moscow and were likewise active in the society (especially Vinogradov).
As it was, also the chapters of Tallinn and Tartu (Dorpat) were interested in whatever help they might receive from Danish Kings in their internal political fights with the Livonian Order.