Dorpat
or DERPT, a town of Esthonia. The university, founded in 1632, by Gustavus Adolphus, was re-established by Alexander I. in 1802, and since May, 1887, has been thoroughly Russianized, the final reorganization of the law faculty taking effect in 1889.
Dorpat was a Hanse town in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was alternately captured by the Swedes, Poles, and Russians till 1704. Now called Yuriev. Pop. about 45,000.