Hugo Grotius
(1583-1645)
Dutch philosopher and jurist
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Hugo Grotius (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot () and Hugo de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, poet and playwright. A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France.
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1583 Delft, Holland, Dutch Republic
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28 August 1645 (aged 62) Rostock, Swedish Pomerania
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