Eemil Nestor Setälä
Finnish politician
Died when: 70 years 346 days (851 months)Star Sign: Pisces
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.
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, and the founder of the research institute ("The Family of the Finnish Language").
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