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Grotius, Hugo
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also found as Huig de Groot
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pronunciation:
[grohshius]
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| Jurist and humanist, born in Delft, W Netherlands. He studied at Leyden, practised in The Hague, and in 1613 was appointed pensionary (chief magistrate) of Rotterdam. In 1618 religious and political conflicts led to his imprisonment, but he escaped to Paris in 1621, where Louis XIII for a time gave him a pension. In 1625 he published De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace), in which he laid the foundations of international law. His chief innovation was his insistence that nations as well as private individuals are bound by natural law, which he considered to be based on man's own nature, and independent of God. |
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