Background
DE MARTENS, Frederick was born in August 1845 in Pernau, in the Russian Baltic Provinces.
DE MARTENS, Frederick was born in August 1845 in Pernau, in the Russian Baltic Provinces.
Studied at School of St. Peter and University, St. Petersburg. First degree at the University, 1867. Master of Int. Law, 1869.
Doctor of Int. Law, 1873. Doctor of Laws of Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Yale Universities. Doctor of Civil Law, Oxford, Odessa, etc.
In the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1869.
Attached to the person of the Chancellor of the Russian Empire, Prince Gortchacow, for special missions, 1876. Russian delegate at many diplomatic congresses and conferences at Brussels, Paris, The Hague, Rome, Geneva, Vienna, etc., since 1874. The second Russian plenipotentiary at the Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899, and President of the Second Commission.
From 1875 several times chosen by European and American Powers as International Arbitrator. Specially President of the Court of Arbitration in Paris, 1899, between Great Britain and Venezuela. Arbitrator between France and England, England and Hoi laud, United States and Mexico, etc.
Now member of the Permanent lnternat. Court of Arbitration at The Hague. Russian delegate at the PeacĀ» negotiations between Russia and Japan in Washington, 1905.
Plenipotentiary of Russia at the Geneva Conference of 1900 for the revision of the Geneva Convention of 1807. Second Russian Delegate at the Second Peace Conference in the Hague in 1907. Privy Councillor; Permanent Member of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1882; late Professor of International Law University of St. Petersburg 1871-1907.
Club: English, St. Petersburg.
Spouse 1879, Cath.daughter of Nicolas de Tulir, Senator of the Russian Empire.