Next week, Tartu University will begin celebrating the 393rd anniversary of the founding of its predecessor — Academia Gustaviana.
Swedish King Gustav II Adolf signed the founding charter of Academia Dorpatensis on June 30, 1632. The solemn opening of the educational institution, where teaching was conducted in Latin, took place on October 25. However, Gustav II Adolf, renowned as a brilliant military leader, died that same year, on November 16, at the Battle of Lützen, leading the fight of Protestant states against the Holy Roman Empire.
On Friday at 16:30, a flower-laying ceremony will take place at the monument to the initiator of the university's creation and its first chancellor, Johan Skytte, as well as at the monument to King Gustav II Adolf. At 18:00, a free concert by accordionist Henri Zibo will begin in the university's assembly hall.
On Saturday at 14:00, a tour will start at the Tartu University Art Museum during the exhibition "Signs of Power," conducted by the museum's scientific secretary Ken Ird and lecturer in the history of political ideas and culture at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, David Ilmar Lepasaar Beecher.
On the same day, a tour dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the birth of the chancellor of Academia Gustavo-Carolina and the governor-general of Livonia, Erik Dahlbergh, will take place at Toomemägi.
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