Karel Pergler, known also by Anglicized Charles Pergler (

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, March 6, 1882 –

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, August 14, 1954) was a

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and

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. He was a Czechoslovak First Republic

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to the United States and Japan. Pergler was born in

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, but moved to the United States at a young age. When his father died, the family moved back to Bohemia, where Pergler got active in the socialist and nationalist movements supporting Czechoslovak independence from

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. He went back to the United States in 1903, studying law at

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, and afterwards practicing law in

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till 1917. He served as the secretary of Professor

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from May 1918 in America. He became ambassador to the United States after Czechoslovak independence in 1918, then becoming ambassador to Japan in 1920. He was dismissed from the foreign service in 1921, with his pension taken away, because of fraud at the Tokyo embassy. He returned to the United States, obtaining a

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degree from American University. He would return to Czechoslovakia in 1929, where he worked together with

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and

Jiří Stříbrný Jiří Stříbrný (14 January 1880 – 21 January 1955) was a Czech politician. He was one of the "founding fathers" of the Czechoslovak Republic, but became a quite controversial figure later on. He died in prison in 1955, after being charged w ...

against

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, and got elected to parliament. In February 1931 he had to relinquish his post, because issues were raised over his citizenship. He returned to America, and taught at various universities. He died in

, in 1954.

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Charles/Karel Pergler History

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pergler, Charles 1882 births 1954 deaths People from Rokycany District People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czechoslovak politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1929–1935) Ambassadors of Czechoslovakia to Japan Ambassadors of Czechoslovakia to the United States 20th-century Czech lawyers Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States American people of Bohemian descent 20th-century American lawyers