biography
pronunciation:
[duh khroht]
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| lived:
| (1615–78)
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| biography:
| Politician, born in Rotterdam, W Netherlands, the son of Hugo (Grotius). He worked as a lawyer in The Hague (1638), and became Pensionary of Amsterdam in 1660, but was removed in 1667 as a follower of de Witt and posted to Sweden as ambassador. He was a member of the peace delegation to Louis XIV of France in 1672, after the French occupied part of the Netherlands. He advised against accepting the king's terms, but still became so unpopular for his alleged weakness towards the French that he fled to Cologne, and on his return in 1674 was accused of high treason. In 1676 the court of Holland acquitted him. |
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