Hans Emil Villius was a Swedish historian and popular TV and radio personality. Villius received his doctorate in history in 1951 with his dissertation Karl XII:s ryska f�ltt�g: K�llstudier in which he critically analysed the narrative sources of Charles XII's officers during the campaign. In 1957 Villius joined Swedish Radiotj�nst and began making popular historical documentaries and programming until he moved to Sveriges Television in 1966. It was at SVT that Villius began working with TV-producer Olle H�ger, a very productive collaboration that would span some two decades. During the 1980s and 90s, H�ger and Villius produced several popular documentaries like Fyra dagar som skakade Sverige in 1988 about the Swedish "Midsummer Crisis" during WW II and Raoul Wallenberg - f�nge i Sovjet as well as one of SVT's biggest and most popular documentary productions ever, Hundra Svenska �r, consisting of eight one-hour documentaries on the history of Sweden during the 20th century from many different perspectives. 

July 10th, 1923 in Kalmar (Age 100)