Eemil Nestor Setälä

Eemil Nestor Setälä

Infobox Officeholder
name=Eemil Nestor Setälä


office=Chairman of the Senate of Finland
term_start=September 8, 1917
term_end=November 27, 1917
predecessor=Oskari Tokoi
successor=Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
birth_date=February 27, 1864
birth_place=Kokemäki, Finland
death_date=Death date and age|1935|2|8|1864|2|27
death_place=Helsinki, Finland
nationality=Finnish
party=National Coalition Party|

Eemil Nestor Setälä, (1864–1935) was the acting head of state of Finland from November 7, 1917 to November 15, 1917.

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 "Suomen suku" ("The Family of the Finnish Language").

His political activities led him to be elected several times to the parliament, for the Young Finnish Party and for the National Coalition Party. For a brief period at the end of World War I, he served as acting head of state, and he later held cabinet posts as minister of education (1925) and foreign minister (1926).

He was Finland's ambassador to Denmark and Hungary from 1927 to 1930.

ee also

*History of Finland
*List of Finnish monarchs


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