LAWYER

Tobias Asser

1838 - 1913

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Tobias Michael Carel Asser (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtoːbijɑs miˈɕɛl ˈkaːrəl ˈɑsər]; 28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize (together with Alfred Fried) for his role in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899 and for his achievements in establishing the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tobias Asser has received more than 142,592 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Tobias Asser is the 12th most popular lawyer, the 80th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 66th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Lawyer.

Tobias Asser is most famous for his work as a lawyer and for his involvement in the Dutch resistance during World War II.

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  • 140k

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  • 65.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 15.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Tobias Asser ranks 12 out of 136. Before him are Louis Renault, J. Edgar Hoover, Henri La Fontaine, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, and Aemilius Papinianus. After him are Rudolf von Jhering, Leo Frank, Tribonian, Muhammad al-Shaybani, Raphael Lemkin, and Al-Tahawi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Tobias Asser ranks 8. Before him are John Wilkes Booth, Ernst Mach, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Max Bruch, Jan Matejko, and Luís I of Portugal. After him are Ernest Solvay, Franz Brentano, Émile Loubet, Léon Gambetta, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, and Yamagata Aritomo. Among people deceased in 1913, Tobias Asser ranks 11. Before him are J. P. Morgan, Alfred von Schlieffen, Lesya Ukrainka, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Menelik II, and Sophia of Nassau. After him are August Bebel, Josephine Cochrane, Harriet Tubman, Philip Sclater, Francisco I. Madero, and Ármin Vámbéry.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Tobias Asser ranks 80 out of 1,646. Before him are Dick Advocaat (1947), Peter Canisius (1521), Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584), Hugo de Vries (1848), Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907), and Petrus Christus (1410). After him are Cornelius Jansen (1585), Bernard Mandeville (1670), Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Willebrord Snellius (1580), and Jan Oort (1900).

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Among LAWYERS In Netherlands

Among lawyers born in Netherlands, Tobias Asser ranks 2. Before him are Hugo Grotius (1583).

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