Julius Seljamaa

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Julius Seljamaa (March 27, 1883 - June 17, 1936) was an Estonian politician and diplomat. From 1933 to 1936 he was the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was born in Sindi, studied from 1899 to 1902 in Riga and became a teacher and later director at a school in Taali in the Tori Parish from 1902 until 1909. From 1909 until 1914 he worked at a school in Rakvere. He then moved to Saint Petersburg to study law and work as a journalist. He graduated in 1918 and began his diplomatic career shortly after the independence of Estonia in February 1918. Together with Johan Laidoner he became the Estonian representative to the Soviet Union and participated in the negotiations of the Treaty of Tartu in 1919 and 1920. From 1922 until 1928 he was the Estonian representative in Latvia and in 1925 and 1926 also in Lithuania. From 1928 until 1933 he was the representative in the Soviet Union. From 1933 until shortly before his death in 1936 he was the Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He died in Talinn shortly he would have become the Estonian representative in Rome.