Marju Lepajõe

In 2018, Lepajõe was the subject of a documentary by writer and director Vallo Toomla, entitled "Marju Lepajõe: Words of the Day". The film was funded by the Estonian Film Institute and premiered on 27 September 2019.

In 2019, Lepajõe's family, the Postimees newspaper and University of Tartu established the Marju Lepajõe Memorial Fund. This fund aims to recognize and value research and translation. In September 2019 the fund announced its first scholarship competition.

Between 1985-8 Lepajõe was Senior Librarian, Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the University of Tartu Library. This was the start of a long academic career there:

Lepajõe graduated from the Department of Philology at the University of Tartu in 1982. Between 1988-91, she studied classical philology at Leningrad State University. In 1996, Lepajõe defended her Master's degree in Classical Philology at the University of Tartu, her research project was entitled: The Fictitious Element in the Dares Phrygian Trojan Chronicle and Its Links to Contemporary Historiography. In 2018, Lepajõe defended her doctoral dissertation, which was entitled: Pastors and Literary Culture: Variations of Christian Humanism in Estonia and Livonia in the First Half of the 17th Century. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree as a result.

Marju Lepajõe (28 October 1962 - 4 July 2019) was an Estonian classical philologist, translator and religious historian.

Lepajõe was born on 28 October 1962 to the scientists Jaan Lepajõe (et) (an expert in cereal production) and Leida Lepajõe (et) (an expert in chicken and egg production). She had two brothers and a sister; her brother Madis Lepajõe (et) became Deputy Mayor of Tartu in 2018.