[1] Torpats graduated from Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in 1940.
In 1951, he graduated from Tartu State University with a degree in classical philology.
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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