Edward Henry Strobel

Edward Henry Strobel, also known as E.H. Strobel (December 7, 1855 – January 15, 1908) was a United States diplomat and a scholar in international law.

Early life and education Strobel was born in Charleston, South Carolina on December 7, 1855.

Politics Based on notes from his period in Madrid, Strobel wrote a book on the Spanish revolution in 1868. 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 Bemis Professor of International Law. Strobel played an important role in negotiating a treaty between France and Siam, which was signed on signed on March 23, 1907. He had suffered blood poisoning after a long illness that started with the bite of an insect in Egypt two years earlier. He was cremated in a ceremony on February 5 1908, at which King Chulalongkorn himself lighted the funeral pyre.

Legacy There is a memorial stone dedicated to Strobel in the churchyard of the Unitarian Church in his hometown Charleston, South Carolina.