OBITUARY.
PROFESSOR DE MARTENS.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 21. The death is announced of Professor de Martens, Russian international jurist. [Frederick de Martens, Professor of International Law at the University of St. Petersburg from 1871 to 1907, and a permanent member of the Russian Council of Foreign Affairs since 1882, was born in 1845. He was Russian delegate at many diplomatic congresses and conferences, was a Russian plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference at The Hague in 1899, and was president of the Second Commission. On several' occasions he was chosen^ by European and American nations as international arbitrator. As such he was president of the Court of Arbitration at Paris in 1899 between Britain and Venezuela. He has also acted as arbitrator between France and Britain, Britain and Holland, and the United States and Mexico. He was a Russian delegate at the peace negotiations between Russia and Japan in 1905.]
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7828, 22 June 1909, Page 4
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