Tobias Michael Carel Asser
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Tobias Asser in 1911
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Tobias Michel Karel Asser 28 April 1838 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 29 July 1913 (aged 75) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Alma mater |
University of Amsterdam Leiden University |
| Spouse(s) | Johanna Ernestina Asser (m. 1864) |
| Awards | Nobel Peace Prize (1911) |
Tobias Michel Karel Asser (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtoːbiɑs miˈʃɛl ˈkaːrəl ˈɑsər]; 28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar of Jewish background. In 1911, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace (together with Alfred Fried) for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the First Hague Conference (1899).
Tobias Michel Karel Asser was born on 28 April 1838 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was son of Carel Daniel Asser (1813–85), and grandson of Carel Asser (1780-1836). He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University and was law professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Asser co-founded the Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée with John Westlake and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns. He also co-founded the Institut de Droit International. in 1873. In 1880 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He was a delegate of the Netherlands to both Hague Peace Conferences in 1899 and 1907. His work in the creation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first conference earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1911. In 1902, he sat on the first arbitration panel to hear an international controversy brought by two states under the auspice of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Pious Fund of the Californias Case. He also took a hand in the establishment of what would become the Hague Academy of International Law, though he did not live to see its foundation.
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