Eemil Nestor Setälä
Chairman of the Senate of Finland | |
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In office 8 September 1917 – 27 November 1917 | |
Preceded by | Oskari Tokoi |
Succeeded by | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud |
Personal details | |
Born | 27 February 1864 National Coalition Party |
Relatives | Kai Setälä |
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
Life
Setälä was born in 1864. In 1892 he married the writer and editor, Helmi Krohn, and she took the name Setälä which she used until they divorced in 1913. A divorce was unusual at this time in Finland.[1]
Architect and writer Salme Setälä was their daughter.[2]
His political activities led him to be elected several times to the parliament, for the
He was the Envoy of Finland to Denmark and Hungary from 1927 to 1930.
From 1926 to 1935 he was Chancellor of the University of Turku.[4]
He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.[5]
References
- ISBN 978-1-4462-7592-4.
- ^ "Salme Setälä". Kirjasampo (in Finnish). Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- ^ "Ministerikortisto". Valtioneuvosto (Finnish Government). Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
- ^ "Chancellors of the University of Turku". University of Turku. Archived from the original on 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ^ "Hietaniemen hautausmaa – merkittäviä vainajia" (PDF). Helsingin seurakuntayhtymä. Retrieved 27 August 2016.