Enn Kippel (until 1935 Eduard Ferdinand Kippel; 16 February 1901

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

– 15 February 1942

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n writer. After 1935, he studied some time at University of Tartu, taking courses related to theology. From 1936, he was a member of Estonian Writers' Union. He was also a member of left-wing student society . In 1941, he joined to

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

. During World War II, he was a front correspondent. He died in 1942 during the

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...

Selected works

* 1935: two-part novel "Ahnitsejad" ('The Greedy') * 1939: novel "Kuldvasikas" ('Golden Calf') * 1941: novel " Meelis"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kippel, Enn 1901 births 1942 deaths Estonian male novelists Estonian journalists 20th-century Estonian novelists Estonian editors University of Tartu alumni Writers from Tallinn People from Tallinn Victims of the Siege of Leningrad