Johannes Semper ( – 21 February 1970)Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK. Retrieved 14 June 2016. was an Estonian poet, writer, translator and politician.
He was born in Pahuvere (now Viljandi Parish), Kreis Fellin, in the Governorate of Livonia. A student and later a prominent scholar at the University of Tartu, he was briefly nominated as Minister for Education of Estonia when the country was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940.Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
He wrote the lyrics of the Anthem of the Estonian SSR.Eesti biograafiline andmebaas ISIK. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
He died in Tallinn and was buried at the Metsakalmistu.
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