Tobias Asser's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Tobias Michael Carel Asser (28 April 1838 – 29 July 1913) was a Dutch lawyer and legal scholar. The birth-card coordinate for April 28 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1911 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1911 The Nobel Peace Prize — for his role as co-founder of the Institut de droit international, initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law (Conférences de Droit international privé) at the Hague, and pioneer in the field of international legal relations

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Tobias Asser's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Tobias Asser. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

Live 6 of Clubs meaning page

Tobias Asser in the public record

In 1911, he won the Nobel Peace Prize (together with Alfred Fried) for his role in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the First Hague Peace Conference in 1899 and for his achievements in establishing the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Tobias Michael Carel Asser was born on 28 April 1838 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in a Jewish family. He was the son of Carel Daniel Asser (1813–1885) and grandson of Carel Asser (1780–1836). He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University and was a law professor at the University of Amsterdam. Asser co-founded the Revue de Droit International et de Législation Comparée with John Westlake and Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns. He also co-founded the Institut de Droit International in 1873. In 1880 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Asser was a leading legal mind in the area of private international law and firmly believed that sound legal frameworks that govern private cross-border relationships would promote peace and stability.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Tobias Asser (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 8 of Spades

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Tobias Asser, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made. Your mind is sharp, commanding, powerful. You think strategically and forcefully. You win arguments and debates. Your thinking dominates.

Asser was a leading legal mind in the area of private international law and firmly believed that sound legal frameworks that govern private cross-border relationships would promote peace and stability.

Paired on shared wording: leading, mind.

Also on the record

1. In 1893, Asser initiated the convocation of the First Diplomatic Session of the HCCH, the preeminent global organisation in the area of private international law.
2. The participating States were Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, and Switzerland.
3. Asser was elected the Session's President, and subsequently re-elected at the Second to Fourth Session which took place in 1894, 1900 and 1904 respectively.
4. Under his leadership, the HCCH developed some multilateral treaties, the Hague Conventions, that unified the rules of private international law in the areas of Marriage (1902), Divorce (1902), Guardianship (1902), Civil Procedure (1905), Effects of Marriage (1905), and Deprivation of Civil Rights (1905).

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Werner — 1913 Chemistry
• Edwin M. McMillan — 1951 Chemistry
• Eric S. Maskin — 2007 Economic Sciences
• Eugene O'Neill — 1936 Literature
• Frederick G. Banting — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• Gustav Hertz — 1925 Physics
• Günter Grass — 1999 Literature
• Hideki Shirakawa — 2000 Chemistry
• Joshua D. Angrist — 2021 Economic Sciences
• K. Barry Sharpless — 2001 Chemistry; 2022 Chemistry
• Martin L. Perl — 1995 Physics
• Roger W. Sperry — 1981 Physiology or Medicine
• 5 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Tobias Asser's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. April 28 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

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Where do Tobias Asser's dates come from?

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