Ülo Torpats (15 November 1920, in

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– 20 January 1988, in Tartu) was an

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n philologist and translator. Torpats graduated from Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in 1940. In 1951, he graduated from

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. From 1951 to 1953, he worked at the Estonian Academy of Agriculture. From 1955 to 1956 and again from 1960, he was a lecturer at the Department of Western European Literature and Classical Philology of the University of Tartu. From 1971 until 1982, he was a lecturer at the university's Department of Foreign Languages.

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* ''Näiteid rooma luulest'' (1970) * ''Lingua latina in medicina'' (1970, with L. Gross and R. Kleis) * ''Studium latinum'' (1975, with L. Gross and R. Kleis) * ''Ladina-eesti sõnaraamat'' = ''Glossarium Latino-Estonicum'' (1986, one of the authors)

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