Edward Henry Strobel

Edward Henry Strobel (December 7, 1855, Charleston – January 15, 1908, Bangkok) was a United States diplomat and a scholar in international law.

[1] 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.

[7] He had suffered blood poisoning after a long illness that started with the bite of an insect in Egypt two years earlier.

[9][10] There is a memorial stone dedicated to Strobel in the churchyard of the Unitarian Church in his hometown Charleston, South Carolina.