Lydia Koidula

Lydia Jannsen, born in Vändra on 24 December 1843, was the eldest daughter of Johann Voldemar Jannsen, a schoolmaster who became the founder of one of the first newspapers in Estonian. After leaving the German girls' school in Pärnu in 1861, she became her father's collaborator and for ten years handled the practical editing of his paper, the country's first woman in the press. Carl Robert Jakobson gave her the pen name formed on the word for dawn. Married in 1873 to Eduard Michelson, a Latvian military doctor, she followed him to Kronstadt, where she died of cancer on 11 August 1886.

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• PoetryEmajõe ÖöbikLydia Koidula · 1867not translated into EnglishLiterature