Eemil Nestor Setälä, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eemil Nestor Setälä

Finnish politician

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1864

Place of Birth: Kokemäki, South-Western Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1935

Profession: politician, diplomat, university teacher, anthropologist, linguist

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Eemil Nestor Setälä, (27 February 1864 in Kokemäki – 8 February 1935 in Helsinki) was a Finnish politician and once the Chairman of the Senate of Finland, from September 1917 to November 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").