Tobias Asser
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Name: Tobias Michael Carel Asser
Birth: 28 April 1838, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Death: 29 July 1913, the Hague, the Netherlands
Residence: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, CA, USA
Role: Cabinet Minister, Initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law at the Hague, Lawyer
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Role: Cabinet Minister, Initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law at the Hague, Lawyer
Nobel Prize Cash & Philanthropy
Tobias Asser used part of his Nobel Prize money to construct a specialized library and he donated the other part to the Hague Academy of International Law.