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the university from 1928, until 1950, when it was removed by the Soviet occupation forces.
With Swedish assistance, it was repaired and re-mounted 42 years later, in 1992. The King of
Sweden was present both at the original and the re-opening of the monument. Elisabeth
Tebelius-Myren authored the restored work.
Karl Ernst von Baer monument
Karl Ernst von Baer was a naturalist, the founder of comparative embryology and
geocryology, recognized worldwide as the discoverer of the ovum in mammals. He was a
student of Tartu University, practiced in the sciences in Königsberg and St. Petersburg, and
was an academician at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.Seven geographical objects
worldwide have been named in his honour. A ritual for university students is washing the hair
of the Baer statue head on the eve of St. Philip's Day.
Kristjan Jaak Peterson monument
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