In the political history of Netherlands, Tobias Asser is one of the names the record keeps returning to.
The record lists Tobias Asser as Dutch lawyer and legal scholar (1838-1913).
Tobias Asser was born at Amsterdam in 1838. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He was educated at Leiden University and University of Amsterdam.
The nineteenth century produced mass politics - parties, newspapers, franchises that widened by inches - and empire on a scale never seen before.
The offices held were Minister of State, President of the Institut de Droit International (from 1898) and President of the Institut de Droit International (from 1897).
He is described as jurist, judge and politician.
What survives of a political career is usually not the speeches but the institutions left behind.
Recognition followed: Nobel Peace Prize (1911).
That the career was made in Netherlands is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Tobias Asser died in 1913, aged 75. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- Minister of State
- President of the Institut de Droit International (from 1898)
- President of the Institut de Droit International (from 1897)
- Nobel Peace Prize — 1911
- Educated at Leiden University and University of Amsterdam
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