Martin Lipp ( in Vooru,

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– 8 March 1923 in

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) was an

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n poet. He is best known as the author of the poem "The Estonian

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", which was set to the music of the then young composer Enn Võrk. That song became as popular to the Estonian people as the "

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" was to the French in the times of the

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and also played an important role during the time of the Estonian "

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" in the late 1980s. Lipp also served as the pastor of the St. Lawrence Church in

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, Estonia.

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at www.indiana.edu Estonian flag based on poem by Martin Lipp 1854 births 1923 deaths People from Viljandi Parish People from the Governorate of Livonia Estonian Lutheran clergy Estonian male poets 19th-century Estonian poets 20th-century Estonian poets University of Tartu alumni {{Estonia-poet-stub