M. W. F. (Marie Willem Frederik) Treub

Born in Voorschoten on November 30, 1858, he studied law and built an early career in scholarship and teaching. After university work in Leiden, Utrecht, Paris, and Amsterdam, he became active in legal and economic writing and taught tax law and economics.

He went on to play a prominent role in Dutch public life. In Amsterdam he served on the city council and as alderman for finance, and later he became a national political figure, serving as a minister and gaining attention for his reform-minded, progressive liberal views.

Remembered as both an academic and a statesman, he combined economic thinking with hands-on government work. He died in The Hague on July 24, 1931, leaving behind a reputation as an influential and sometimes forceful voice in Dutch politics.