Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann ja Tartu Ülikool
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann and the University of Tartu

Summary/Abstract: F. J. Wiedemann, an outstanding Finno-Ugric scholar of the 19th century, was a Baltic German who was born and grew up in Haapsalu, Estonia. He studied at the University of Tartu in 1824–27; being formally a law student, he actually studied philology, especially Latin, Greek, English, Italian, and Arabic. During his university days he did not study any Finno-Ugric languages. In 1827 he passed the exam to qualify as the senior teacher of the classical languages and the exams to qualify as a teacher of French, English, and Italian. In 1829–1830 worked as a lecturer of Arabic at the University of Tartu. Being already a member of the academy, he was awarded the title of honorary doctor of the University in 1866 and that of honorary member in 1880.

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