Tobias Michel Karel Asser (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈtoːbiɑs miˈʃɛl ˈkaːrəl ˈɑsər]; 28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar of Jewish background.In 1911, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace (together with Alfred Fried) for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the First Hague Conference (1899).