ASSER, TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL

born April 28, 1838, Amsterdam, Neth. died July 29, 1913, The Hague Tobias Asser, 1911 Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). Asser was professor of commercial and private international law at the University of Amsterdam from 1862 to 1893. In 1869 Asser, along with two associates, started the Revue de Droit International et de Lgislation Compare (Review of International Law and of Comparative Legislation). He was also a founder of the Institute of International Law in 1873. In 1891 Asser prevailed upon the Dutch government to convoke the Hague Conference for the Unification of International Private Law, which first met in 1893 and later became a permanent institution, responsible, among other things, for the Hague treaties of 190205 concerning family law. In 191112 he presided over conferences for the unification of the law relating to international bills of exchange. In 1893 he became a member of the Dutch Council of State. Asser was a Netherlands delegate to the Hague peace conferences of 1899 and 1907.