Eemil Nestor Setälä
Finnish politician (1864–1935) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eemil Nestor Setälä (pronounced [ˈeːmil ˈnestor ˈsetælæ]; 27 February 1864 – 8 February 1935) was a Finnish politician and once the Chairman of the Senate of Finland, from September 1917 to November 1917, when he was author of the Finnish Declaration of Independence.
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Eemil Nestor Setälä | |
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Chairman of the Senate of Finland | |
In office 8 September 1917 – 27 November 1917 | |
Preceded by | Oskari Tokoi |
Succeeded by | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud |
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Born | 27 February 1864 Kokemäki, Finland |
Died | 8 February 1935(1935-02-08) (aged 70) Helsinki, Finland |
Political party | National Coalition Party |
Relatives | Kai Setälä |
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Setälä was a linguist, professor of Finnish language and literature at Helsinki University from 1893 to 1929. He was a major influence on the study of Finnish language, the founder of the research institute Suomen suku ("Finnish kin"), and creator of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet.