DORPAT

Meaning of DORPAT in English

Function: geographical name

― see TARTU

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

DORPAT — geographical name see: Tartu
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DORPAT — /dawrdd"paht/ , n. German name of Tartu .
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DORPAT — — see Tartu
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TARTU — or German Dorpat geographical name city E Estonia W of Lake Peipus population 113,410
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STRUVE, FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM VON — born April 15, 1793, Altona, Den. died Nov. 23, 1864, St. Petersburg, Russia German-born Russian astronomer. He left Germany for …
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BAER, KARL ERNST, KNIGHT VON — born Feb. 29, 1792, Piep, Est., Russian Empire died Nov. 28, 1876, Dorpat, Est. Prussian-born Estonian embryologist. Studying chick development …
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TARTU — /tahr"tooh/ , n. a city in SE Estonia. 115,000. Formerly, German, Dorpat; Russian, Yurev .
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VALDEMAR II — born 1170, Denmark died March 28, 1241, Denmark byname Valdemar the Victorious, Danish Valdemar Sejr king of Denmark (120241) who, …
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TARTU — German and Swedish Dorpat, formerly (until 1893) Derpt and (18931918) Yuryev old university city of Estonia, on the Emajogi River. …
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STRUVE, FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM VON — born April 15, 1793, Altona, Den. [now in Germany] died Nov. 23, 1864, St. Petersburg, Russia Russian Vasily Yakovlevich Struve …
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STIERNHIELM, GEORG — born Aug. 7, 1598, Vika, Swed. died April 22, 1672, Stockholm original name Jran Olofsson, also called Georgius Olai, or …
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SCHLEIDEN, MATTHIAS JAKOB — born April 5, 1804, Hamburg died June 23, 1881, Frankfurt am Main German botanist, cofounder (with Theodor Schwann) of the …
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RATHKE, MARTIN H(EINRICH) — born Aug. 25, 1793, Danzig, Prussia [now Gdansk, Pol.] died Sept. 3, 1860, Knigsberg [now Kaliningrad, Russia] German anatomist who …
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OSTWALD, WILHELM — born Sept. 2, 1853, Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire died April 4, 1932, near Leipzig, Ger. Wilhelm Ostwald. in full Friedrich …
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MADLER, JOHANN HEINRICH VON — born May 29, 1794, Berlin, Prussia died March 14, 1874, Hanover, Ger. German astronomer who (with Wilhelm Beer) published the …
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LIVONIAN WAR — (155883), prolonged military conflict, during which Russia unsuccessfully fought Poland, Lithuania, and Sweden for control of greater Livoniathe area including …
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KURBSKY, ANDREY MIKHAYLOVICH, PRINCE (KNYAZ) — born 1528, Russia died 1583, Poland-Lithuania Russian military commander who was a close associate and adviser to Tsar Ivan IV …
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KRAEPELIN, EMIL — born Feb. 15, 1856, Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz died Oct. 7, 1926, Munich, Ger. German psychiatrist, one of the most influential of …
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KLINGER, FRIEDRICH MAXIMILIAN VON — born Feb. 17, 1752, Frankfurt am Main died March 9, 1831, Dorpat, Estonia dramatist and novelist, a representative of the …
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KLAUS, KARL KARLOVICH — born Jan. 23, 1796, Dorpat, Russia [now Tartu, Estonia] died March 24, 1864, Dorpat also called Carl Ernst Claus Russian …
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HOFMANN, MELCHIOR — born c. 1495, , Schwbisch-Hall, Swabia died 1543/44, Strassburg [now Strasbourg, Fr.] Hofmann also spelled Hoffmann German mystic and lay …
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HARNACK, ADOLF (KARL GUSTAV) VON — born , May 7, 1851, Dorpat, Estonia, Russian Empire died June 10, 1930, Berlin German theologian, historian, and leading scholar …
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HANSEATIC LEAGUE — also called Hansa, German Hanse, organization founded by north German towns and German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual …
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GOLITSYN, BORIS BORISOVICH, KNYAZ — born March 2 [Feb. 18, old style], 1862, St. Petersburg, Russia died May 17 [May 4, O.S.], 1916, near Petrograd …
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CHODKIEWICZ, JAN KAROL — born 1560, probably at Stary Bykhov, Pol. died Sept. 24, 1621, Chocim Polish general who won remarkable victories against the …
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BERGMANN, ERNST (GUSTAV BENJAMIN) VON — born Dec. 16, 1836, Riga, Latvia died March 25, 1907, Wiesbaden, Ger. German surgeon and author of a classic work …
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BAER, KARL ERNST, RITTER VON (KNIGHT OF), EDLER ... — born Feb. 29, 1792, Piep, Estonia, Russian Empire died Nov. 28, 1876, Dorpat, Estonia PrussianEstonian embryologist who discovered the mammalian …
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AEPINUS, FRANZ MARIA ULRICH THEODOR HOCH — born Dec. 13, 1724, Rostock, Mecklenberg-Schwerin died Aug. 10, 1802, Dorpat, Russia physicist whose Tentamen theoriae electricitatis et magnetismi (1759; …
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STRUVE, FRIEDRICH GEORG WILHELM VON — born April 15, 1793, Altona, Den. died Nov. 23, 1864, St. Petersburg, Russia German-born Russian astronomer. He left Germany for …
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BAER, KARL ERNST, KNIGHT VON — born Feb. 29, 1792, Piep, Est., Russian Empire died Nov. 28, 1876, Dorpat, Est. Prussian-born Estonian embryologist. Studying chick development …
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