Edward Henry Strobel

Edward Henry Strobel was a United States diplomat and a scholar in international law.

Strobel was born in Charleston, South Carolina on December 7, 1855. He was educated at Harvard College and at Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1883. In 1885 he was appointed Secretary of the Legation of the United States to Spain, serving until 1890. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9407E3DB1439E533A25757C2A9609C94649FD7CF "NATIONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.; APPOINTMENTS TO OFFICE", "New York Times", June 24, 1885] ]

Based on notes from his period in Madrid, Strobel wrote a book on the Spanish revolution in 1868. [ [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=uuYCAAAAMAAJ&dq=edward+henry+strobel&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=_HAT6u44Ky&sig=-Io3_VrZ3zZU9cKFRIkeycFdrLk Edward Henry Strobel, "The Spanish Revolution, 1868-1875", Small, Maynard & company, Boston, 1898] ] Strobel returned to become Third Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, DC during 1893-94. He served as U.S. Minister to Ecuador in 1894, and to Chile from 1894-97. He returned to Boston in 1898 to become the Bemis Professor of International Law.

In 1903 Strobel took a leave of absence to represent the Kingdom of Siam at the International Peace Court in The Hague in 1903. In 1906 he moved to Bangkok to become a general advisor to the government of Siam. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9505E7D7173EE733A25752C0A9649D946797D6CF&scp=1&sq=edward+henry+strobel&st=p "TO BE SIAM'S ADVISER.; Prof. Strobel of Harvard Resigns to Take New Post", "New York Times", December 1, 1906] ]

Edward Strobel died in Bangkok, Siam on January 15, 1908. He had suffered blood-poisoning after a long illness that started with the bite of an insect in Egypt two years earlier. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5DA173EE233A25755C1A9679C946997D6CF "EDWARD H. STROBEL DEAD.; Had Been General Adviser of the Government of Siam Since 1903", "New York Times", January 16, 1908] ] He was cremated in a ceremony on February 5, at which King Chulalongkorn himself lighted the funeral pyre. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5DA173EE233A25755C1A9679C946997D6CF "KING LIGHTS STROBEL'S PYRE.; Body of American Adviser to Chulalongkorn of Siam Cremated Yesterday", "New York Times", February 6, 1909] ] There is a memorial stone dedicated to Strobel in the churchyard of the Unitarian Church in his hometown Charleston, SC.

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