Learned Estonian Society
The Learned Estonian Society (Õpetatud Eesti Selts, shortened ÕES; Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, shortened GEG) is Estonia's oldest scholarly organisation, and was formed at the University of Tartu in 1838. Its charter was to study Estonia's history and pre-history, its language, literature and folklore. Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Alexander Friedrich von Hueck and Dietrich Heinrich Jürgenson led the society that consisted of Estonian and Estophile Baltic German intellectuals.
Learned Estonian Society
- Founded
- 1838.
- Founder
- Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Alexander von Hueck and Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse.
- Headquarters
- Tartu.
- Activity
- higher education.
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The Learned Estonian Society (Õpetatud Eesti Selts, shortened ÕES; Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, shortened GEG) is Estonia's oldest scholarly organisation, and was formed at the University of Tartu in 1838. Its charter was to study Estonia's history and pre-history, its language, literature and folklore. Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Alexander Friedrich von Hueck and Dietrich Heinrich Jürgenson led the society that consisted of Estonian and Estophile Baltic German intellectuals.
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The society provides language analysis services in addition to assistance in the development of the scientific study of history, archeology, ethnography, numismatics and art history. The initial version of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's Kalevipoeg was published in its Proceedings between 1857 and 1861. In 1950, the Soviet occupation authorities shut down the society and split its collection of 25,000 books, 160,000 pages of manuscripts and 60,000 ethnographical items between several other institutes. The society was restored in 1988 on the initiative of Professor Herbert Ligi of Tartu University.
It is associated with Estonia. The record gives 1838 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Its recorded founders are Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Alexander von Hueck and Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse. Its recorded seat is Tartu. The recorded field of activity is higher education.
Learned Estonian Society is recorded as founded by Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Alexander von Hueck and Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse. Associated with Estonia. Recorded from 1838.
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1838
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Learned Estonian Society is recorded from 1838.
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- 1.Marc Eric Mitzscherling: Nationalmuseale Anfänge in der Peripherie des 19. Jahrhunderts – Vergleichende Betrachtung von Sammlungsmotiven und -schwerpunkten nationaler Protomuseen, Erfurt 2023 (Academia.edu).
- 2.756. Monatssitzung vom 7. März 1912. Sitzungsberichte der gelehrten estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat 1912–1920, Tartu, 1921, S. 12.
- 3.Paul Wolfgang Merkel’sche Familienstiftung: Dr. Adalbert Volck. In: Familiendaten der Paul Wolfgang Merkelschen Familienstiftung Nürnberg. Nürnberg, 2010.
- 4.Verzeichnis der Mitglieder am Schlusse des Jahres 1890 https://hdl.handle.net/10062/21038
- 5.Verzeichnis der Mitglieder am Schlusse des Jahres 1900 https://hdl.handle.net/10062/20876
- 6.Verzeichnis der Mitglieder am Schlusse des Jahres 1905 https://hdl.handle.net/10062/20907
- 7.Verzeichnis der Mitglieder am Schlusse des Jahres 1910 https://hdl.handle.net/10062/20920
- 8.Verzeichnis der Mitglieder am Schlusse des Jahres 1910 https://hdl.handle.net/10062/20921
- 9.Woldemar Gf. v. Broel-Plater.
- 10.Rudolf v. Raison.
- 11.Andreevskij, Ivan Efimovič.
- 12.Nik. v. Boguschewski.
- 13.Theodor v. Bühler.
- 14.Byčkov, Afanasij Federovič.
- 15.Paul Jordan.
- 16.Michael Kapustin.
- 17.Carl Malm.
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