Ülo Torpats

Ülo Torpats (15 November 1920, in Tartu – 20 January 1988, in Tartu) was an Estonian philologist and translator.

Torpats graduated from Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in 1940. In 1951, he graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in classical philology. 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. Kreeka kirjanduse antoloogia; Kuningas Oidipus by Sophocles, translated by Torpats and Ain Kaalep Eestlaste endeemilistest haigustest, by Karl Ernst von Baer, translated by Ülo Torpats Narruse kiitus, by Erasmus, illustrated by Hans Holbein the Younger and translated by Ülo Torpats