Hillar Palamets (13 July 1927 – 20 May 2022) was an Estonian historian and radio presenter.[1]

Biography

Palamets was born in Tallinn on 13 July 1927. In 1951, he graduated from Tartu State University, specialising in Soviet Union history. From 1961 to 1996 he taught at Tartu University.[1]

He was the author and host of the radio program Ajalootund. The program lasted 18 years (ending in 2012) and had 888 individual broadcasts.[2]

Palamets died on 20 May 2022, aged 94.[3]

Awards

Works

  • 1977: Alma mater Tartuensis
  • 1982: Tartu ülikooli ajalugu. III (one of the authors)
  • 1982: Alma mater Tartuensis (one of the authors)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fond 141: Hillar Palamets" (PDF). ut.ee. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "Hillar Palamets saatis legendaarse raadiosaate ajalooriiulile". Tartu Postimees (in Estonian). 20 March 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Tooming, Marko (20 May 2022). "Suri ajaloolane ja raadiohääl Hillar Palamets" [Historian and radio presenter Hillar Palamets died]. err.ee (in Estonian). Eesti Rahvusringhääling. Retrieved 20 May 2022.


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