The Learned Estonian Society (Õpetatud Eesti Selts, ÕES; Gelehrte Estnische Gesellschaft, GEG), Estonia’s oldest scholarly organization, was formed at the University of Tartu in 1838. Its charter is to study Estonia’s history and pre-history, its language, literature, and folklore, and comprises Estonian and Estophile Baltic German intellectuals. 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.
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