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{{short description|Estonian diplomat and politician}}
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'''Friedrich Karl Akel''' ({{OldStyleDate|5 September|1871|24 August}}<ref name="birth">{{cite web|title=Friedrich Karl Akel|url=http://valitsus.ee/UserFiles/valitsus/et/riigikantselei/uldinfo/organisatsioon/Friedrich%20Karl%20Akel.pdf|publisher=[[Government of Estonia]]|accessdate=8 June 2013|page=2|language=Estonian}}</ref> in Kaubi Manor, Kaubi Parish (now in [[Pornuse]] village, [[Halliste Parish]])&nbsp;– 3 July 1941 in [[Tallinn]]) was an [[Estonia]]n diplomat and politician, a member of the International Olympic Committee,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv8n1/johv8n1k.pdf |title=Karl Friedrich Akel |accessdate=29 September 2008 |publisher=LA84 Foundation }}</ref> and Head of State of Estonia in 1924.
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He was an assistant in the Tartu University Clinic, a doctor in the Reimers ophthalmology clinic in [[Riga]], 1899–1901 a doctor in the Ujazdov hospital in [[Warsaw]]. In 1901, he studied in Berlin, [[Prague]] and [[Leipzig]]. Akel worked a private [[ophthalmologist]] in [[Tallinn]], and in 1907 he was one of the founders of the Private Clinic of Estonian Physicians. In 1912 he founded his own eye clinic. In 1904–1905 he was in the [[Russo-Japanese war]] as a physician. He was also a member and a chairman of the [[Tallinn]] Municipal Council, and the Honorary [[Justice of the Peace]] in the Tallinn-Haapsalu Peace Council.
 
Akel was a member the Boardboard of the Northern Baltic Union of Physicians and the Tallinn Popular Education society, Chairmanchairman of the sports society "Kalev", building society of "Estonia" theatre and the Estonian Society "Estonia" in Tallinn, Membermember and Chairmanchairman of the Councilcouncil and member of the Board of the Tallinn Loan and Savings Society, later the Tallinn "Krediitpank" (Credit Bank), 1920–1922 [[Vicevice Presidentpresident]] of the [[Consistory (Protestantism)|Consistoryconsistory]] of the [[Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church]], and in 1927–1932 Estonia's representative in the [[International Olympic Committee]].
 
Akel was Estonia's [[riigivanem|Elder of State]] in March – December 1924, and served three times as [[Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs|foreign minister]]. He was also Estonia's [[envoy (title)|envoy]] in Finland, [[Sweden]] and Germany. In 1923–1929, Akel was a member of the [[Riigikogu]], and in 1938–1940 he was a member of the Riiginõukogu (the second Chamber of the Estonian Parliament).