Eemil Nestor Setälä, was a Finnish

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 politician and once the Chairman of the Senate of Finland

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, from September 1917 to November 1917.

Setälä was a linguist

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, professor

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 of Finnish

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 language

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 and literature

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 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

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 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

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 and for the National Coalition Party. For a brief period at the end of World War I

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, he served as acting head of state as the Chairman of the Senate. Later Setälä held cabinet

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 posts as of the minister of education (1925) and the Foreign Minister (1925-1926).

He was the ambassador

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 of Finland to Denmark

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 and Hungary

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from 1927 to 1930.