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Eemil Nestor Setälä

1864 - 1935

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Eemil Nestor Setälä (pronounced [ˈeːmil ˈnestor ˈsetælæ]; 27 February 1864 – 8 February 1935) was a Finnish politician who served as 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, the founder of the research institute Suomen suku ("Finnish kin"), and creator of the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eemil Nestor Setälä is the 10,281st most popular politician (up from 13,346th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Finland (up from 213th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Finnish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eemil Nestor Setälä ranks 10,281 out of 19,576. Before him are Lucius Scribonius Libo, Lucius Papirius Cursor, Nicolaes Witsen, Vadim Bakatin, Vima Kadphises, and Jacques Duclos. After him are Miro, Hiempsal II, Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Æthelred of Mercia, Aulus Postumius Albinus, and Franco Maria Malfatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Eemil Nestor Setälä ranks 86. Before him are Frank Chapman, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Alejandro Lerroux, Stefan Żeromski, Ante Trumbić, and Herman Gorter. After him are Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Ferdinand Zecca, José Gregorio Hernández, Ricarda Huch, Michael Mayr, and Tsuda Umeko. Among people deceased in 1935, Eemil Nestor Setälä ranks 72. Before him are Oda Krohg, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, James Henry Breasted, Edoardo Agnelli, Agnes Pockels, and Alexander von Linsingen. After him are Yusuf Akçura, Qu Qiubai, Photius II of Constantinople, Johannes Thiele, Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria, and Pyotr Kozlov.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Eemil Nestor Setälä ranks 118 out of 751. Before him are Renny Harlin (1959), Gustaf John Ramstedt (1873), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), and Walter Jakobsson (1882). After him are Sanna Marin (1985), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Rauno Aaltonen (1938), Anders Chydenius (1729), Pentti Linkola (1932), and Martti Miettunen (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In Finland

Among politicians born in Finland, Eemil Nestor Setälä ranks 29. Before him are Arvid Horn (1664), Matti Vanhanen (1955), Lauri Ingman (1868), Karl-August Fagerholm (1901), Kalevi Sorsa (1930), and Toivo Mikael Kivimäki (1886). After him are Sanna Marin (1985), Martti Miettunen (1907), Anneli Jäätteenmäki (1955), Kaarlo Castrén (1860), Rafael Paasio (1903), and Reino Ragnar Lehto (1898).

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