Education
Akel attended the Alexander Gymnasium in Tartu, and studied in the department of medicine of Tartu University in 1892–1897. In 1901, he studied in Berlin, Prague and Leipzig.
Diplomat ophthalmologist politician
Akel attended the Alexander Gymnasium in Tartu, and studied in the department of medicine of Tartu University in 1892–1897. In 1901, he studied in Berlin, Prague and Leipzig.
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. 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 Estonia"s Elder of State in March – December 1924, and served three times as foreign minister.
He was also Estonia"s envoy in Finland, Sweden and Germany. In October 1940, Akel was imprisoned by the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs. He was shot to death in Tallinn on 3 July 1941.
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).
