Martin Lipp ( in

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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 ', which was set to the music of the then young composer

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. That song became as popular to the Estonian people as the ''

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'' was to the French in the times of the French Revolution 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

Nõo Nõo () is a Populated places in Estonia, small borough () in Tartu County, in southern Estonia. It's located about 15 km southwest of the city of Tartu by the Tartu–Valga, Estonia, Valga–Riga railway and the European route E264 (also kn ...

, 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 Kreis Fellin Estonian Lutheran clergy Estonian male poets 19th-century Estonian poets 20th-century Estonian poets University of Tartu alumni {{Estonia-poet-stub