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Hugo Grotius

1583 - 1645

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Hugo Grotius ( GROH-shee-əss; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː də ˈɣroːt]) or Huig de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦœyɣ də ˈɣroːt]), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the controversies over religious policy of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was regularly brought to him and was transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Grotius is the most popular lawyer (up from 2nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Lawyer.

Hugo Grotius is most famous for being the first person to use the word "international law" in his book, "De Jure Belli ac Pacis," which means "On the Law of War and Peace."

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Among LAWYERS

Among lawyers, Hugo Grotius ranks 1 out of 136. After him are Al-Shafi‘i, Charles Albert Gobat, Carlo Buonaparte, Louis Renault, John F. Kennedy Jr., Henri La Fontaine, Ulpian, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, and Tobias Asser.

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Among people born in 1583, Hugo Grotius ranks 1. After him are Albrecht von Wallenstein, Sasaki Kojirō, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Axel Oxenstierna, Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Pieter Lastman, Jacob De la Gardie, Orlando Gibbons, Christian II, Elector of Saxony, Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Hayashi Razan. Among people deceased in 1645, Hugo Grotius ranks 2. Before him is Miyamoto Musashi. After him are Michael of Russia, William Laud, Li Zicheng, Francisco de Quevedo, Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, Nur Jahan, Marie de Gournay, Feng Menglong, Mary Ward, and Anthony van Diemen.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hugo Grotius ranks 19 out of 1,646. Before him are Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Christiaan Huygens (1629), Hendrik Lorentz (1853), Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852). After him are Pieter Zeeman (1865), Abel Tasman (1603), Sophia of Hanover (1630), Willem Barentsz (1550), Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853), and M. C. Escher (1898).

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Among LAWYERS In Netherlands

Among lawyers born in Netherlands, Hugo Grotius ranks 1. After him are Tobias Asser (1838).

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