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Ingvar Pärnamäe

Estonian politician (born 1977)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ16408179 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ingvar Pärnamäe (born 27 July 1977) is an Estonian politician and civil servant. He served as a member of the IX Riigikogu from 1999 to 2002. Elected at the age of 21, he is youngest Member of Parliament in the country's history.

He was a member of the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (known as Isamaa since 2018) from 1995 to 2017.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ingvar Pärnamäe” is estonian politician (born 1977). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ingvar, Pärnamäe and Estonian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1999, 2002, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-07-27. For this dossier, Ingvar, Pärnamäe and Estonian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “estonian politician (born 1977)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16408179. VIAF identifies the subject as 62149542777300301354. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1999, 2002 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ingvar Pärnamäe”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ingvar Pärnamäe primary sources, Ingvar Pärnamäe archive and Ingvar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ingvar Pärnamäe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.