Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

male, deceased (1944)
emigrant, printmaker, World War I, abstract, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, theorist…University of Tartu, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, University of Moscow, UniversityofDorpat, russian revolution of 1917
Wassily Kandinsky (– December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is cr...
Oswald Schmiedeberg

Oswald Schmiedeberg

male
World War II, Baltic German, German, Chemist, pharmaceutical, tartu…University of Strasbourg, Dorpat, UniversityofDorpat
Oswald Schmiedeberg was a Baltic German pharmacologist. Schmiedeberg was born at Gut Laidsen in the Imperial Russian province of Courland. In 1866...
Rudolf Buchheim

Rudolf Buchheim

male, deceased (1879)
Chemist, Pharmacologist, University of Leipzig, toxicology, University of Giessen, Bautzen…UniversityofDorpat
Rudolf Buchheim (March 1, 1820 - December 25, 1879 was a German pharmacologist who was born in Bautzen. In 1845 he earned his doctorate from the...
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich

male, deceased (1886)
Mineralogist, Geologist, German, mineral, volcano, University of Tartu…UniversityofDorpat
Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich (December 11, 1806 - July 1, 1886) was a German mineralogist and geologist. He was born at Berlin and educated at...

Gustav von Ewers

male, deceased (1830)
Livonia, political science, Baltic German, German, Russian, tartu…humboldt university, University of Göttingen, University of Tartu, University of Berlin, UniversityofDorpat
(Johann Philipp) Gustav von Ewers was a German legal historian and the founder of Russian legal history as a scholarly discipline. Gustav Ewers was...
Andrievs Niedra

Andrievs Niedra

male, deceased (1942)
Livonia, writer, Baltic German, Latvian, tartu, socialism…University of Tartu, UniversityofDorpat, Latvian War of Independence, The Memoirs of a Traitor to the Nation, occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany
Andrievs Niedra, formerly spelt Andreews Needra (b. February 8 1871 in Tirza civil parish near Gulbene, Vidzeme -- d. September 25 1942 in Riga),...
Eduard Toll

Eduard Toll

male, deceased (1902)
Baltic German, Geologist, Explorer of the Arctic, Russian, tartu, reval…University of Tartu, UniversityofDorpat, Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Eduard Vasiliyevich Toll (March 2(14), 1858, Reval - 1902, Arctic Ocean) was a Russian geologist and Arctic explorer. Eduard Toll was born to a...
Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot

Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot

male
Livonia, estonian, Baltic German, Naturalist, armenian, caspian sea…University of Tartu, UniversityofDorpat
Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot was a Baltic German naturalist and traveller. He studied medicine and natural science at the University of...
Karl Friedrich Burdach

Karl Friedrich Burdach

male, deceased (1847)
professor, German, physiology, Science writer, Physiologist, From Leipzig…University of Tartu, UniversityofDorpat
Karl Friedrich Burdach was a German physiologist, born in Leipzig. He was graduated in medicine there in 1800; became professor of physiology in...
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein

August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein

male
linguistics, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, linguist, German, Ethnographer, Theologian…University of Konigsberg, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, University of Halle, St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, UniversityofDorpat
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein was a Baltic German linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, and theologian. He studied at the University of Halle...