Henrik Visnapuu was a well-known Estonian poet and dramatist.
Education
Henrik Visnapuu first attended the village school in Reola (today in Ülenurme Parish) and college in Sipe (today in Kambja Parish) and the municipal school in Tartu. In 1907, he graduated from the grammar school in Narva after taking final exams in education and taught at various schools as a primary school teacher. At the same time he attended lectures in philosophy at the University of Tartu.
Career
By 1912 he moved to Tartu and taught Estonian literature at the local high school for girls. Visnapuu worked since 1917 as a journalist at the Tallinna Teataja, then until 1935 he worked as a freelance journalist and author From 1935 to 1944 he was culture secretary in the department of the Information Agency of the Estonian state.
With the approaching Soviet occupation of Estonia and the return of the Red Army, Henrik Visnapuu fled to Germany in 1944 and in 1949 moved to the United States, where he died on Long Island, New New York
Visnapuu"s poems were used by composer Eduard Tubin in his "Requiem for Fallen Soldiers" (1979).