{{Short description|American diplomat (1855–1908)}} [[File:Edward_H._Strobel.jpg|thumb]] '''Edward Henry Strobel''' (December 7, 1855, [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] – January 15, 1908, [[Bangkok]]) was a United States [[Diplomacy|diplomat]] and a [[scholar]] in [[international law]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=1908 |title=Edward Henry Strobel |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/edward-henry-strobel/1DB441CDBF35E5F58DD381071836EAD8 |journal=American Journal of International Law |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=178–179 |doi=10.2307/2186571 |jstor=2186571 |issn=0002-9300|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
Strobel was born in [[Charleston, South Carolina]] on December 7, 1855.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1877 and [[Harvard Law School]] in 1882.<ref name=":0" /> He practiced law in New York from 1883 to 1885.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/06/24/103024428.pdf |title=National Capital Topics: Appointments to Office |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 23, 1885 |access-date=20 May 2019 |location=Washington}}</ref>
Based on notes from his period in [[Madrid]], Strobel wrote a book on the [[Glorious Revolution (Spain)|Spanish revolution]] in 1868.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/spanishrevoluti00strogoog |first=Edward Henry |last=Strobel |title=The Spanish Revolution, 1868–1875 |publisher=[[Small, Maynard]] |location=Boston |year=1898 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/spanishrevoluti00strogoog/page/n309 293]}}</ref> Strobel returned to become Third Assistant Secretary of State in Washington, D.C. during 1893–1894. He served as U.S. Minister to Ecuador in 1894, and to Chile from 1894 to 1897. He returned to [[Boston]] in 1898 to become the [[George Bemis (lawyer)|Bemis]] [[Professorial positions at Harvard Law School|Professor of International Law]].<ref name=":0" />
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 the American Adviser in Foreign Affairs to the government King [[Chulalongkorn]] of Siam.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/12/01/archives/to-be-siams-adviser-prof-strobel-of-harvard-resigns-to-take-new.html |title=To Be Siam's Adviser: Prof. Strobel of Harvard Resigns to Take New Post |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 1, 1906 |access-date=20 May 2019 |page=1 |location=Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="JSS_060_1e_Oblas_Treaty">{{cite journal |last=Oblas |first=Peter |year=1972 |title=Treaty Revision and the Role of the American Foreign Affairs Adviser 1909–1925 |journal=[[Journal of the Siam Society]] |format=free |volume=JSS Vol. 60.1 |issue=digital |pages=images 2–4, 10–13 |publisher=Siam Heritage Trust |url=http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1971/JSS_060_1e_Oblas_TreatyRevisionAndAmericanForeignAffairsAdvisor.pdf |access-date=March 17, 2013 |quote=Edward Strobel was the first American Adviser in Foreign Affairs.}}</ref><ref name="JSS_062_2f_Tham">{{cite journal |first=Thamsook |last=Numnonda |year=1974 |title=The First American Advisers in Thai History |journal=[[Journal of the Siam Society]] |volume=JSS Vol.62.2f |issue=digital |publisher=Siam Society |url=http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/1971/JSS_062_2f_ThamsookNumnonda_FirstAmericanAdvisersInThaiHistory.pdf |access-date=September 7, 2013 |quote=The eventful forty-two year reign of King Chulalongkorn of Thailand (1868–1910) was a landmark in Thai history. It was the period that Thailand began to develop herself into a modern state, with the abolition of extrality (extraterritoriality), the negotiations of treaties, the reform of law and judicial administration, and the reorganization of governmental agencies. The achievement of these aims was, in fact, partly due to the work of the "foreign advisers" who shared roles in the affairs of this small Asian country.}}</ref> Strobel played an important role in negotiating a treaty between France and Siam, which was signed on signed on March 23, 1907.<ref name=":0" />
Edward Strobel died in Bangkok, Siam on January 15, 1908.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Late Mr. E. H. Strobel.|newspaper=Straits Echo |date=29 January 1908 |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitsecho19080129-1.2.19 |page=5|via=newspaperSG |access-date=2022-12-01}}</ref> He had suffered [[Sepsis|blood poisoning]] after a long illness that started with the bite of an insect in Egypt two years earlier.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/01/16/104715211.pdf |title=Edward E. Strobel Dead: Had Been General Adviser of the Government of Siam Since 1903 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 13, 1908 |access-date=20 May 2019 |location=Bangkok}}</ref> He was cremated in a ceremony on February 5 1908, at which King [[Chulalongkorn]] himself lighted the funeral [[pyre]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D04E5DA173EE233A25755C1A9679C946997D6CF |title=King Light Strobel's Pyre: Body of American Adviser to Chulalongkorn of Siam Cremated Yesterday |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 6, 1909 |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cremation at Bangkok.|newspaper=[[The Straits Times]] |date=9 February 1909 |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19090209-1.2.55 |page=6|via=newspaperSG |access-date=2022-12-05}}</ref> There is a memorial stone dedicated to Strobel in the churchyard of the Unitarian Church in his hometown Charleston, South Carolina.
== See also == {{Portal|Biography|Politics}} * [[Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns]] – Belgian predecessor and first modern foreign advisor * [[Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.]] – American successor
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==External links== * {{Find a Grave|25227209|name=Strobel's memorial in Bangkok}} * {{Find a Grave|8808321|name=Strobel's memorial in Charleston}}
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