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Onni Eugen Aleksander Talas (15 June 1877 – 3 May 1958; till 1895 Gratschoff) was a Finnish lawyer, politician, professor and diplomat, and was a member of the Senate of Finland. [1]
Talas was born in Lappeenranta. He was the Chargé d'affaires to Madrid and Lisbon (1919–1921) and Envoy to Copenhagen (1930–1934), Budapest (1931–1940), [2] Vienna (1933–1938), Ankara (1934–1940), [3] Sofia (1934–1940), [4] Belgrade (1934–1940), [5] Rome (1940–1944) [6] and the Independent State of Croatia (1941–1942). [1] He was a professor of administrative law at the University of Helsinki in 1925 to 1930.
He died in Helsinki, aged 80 always remembered in the hearts of Finnish politicians and family.