Hugo Grotius
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Dutch jurist and scholar
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Hugo Grotius's Degrees
- Doctorate Law Leiden University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot and Hugo de Groot , 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 transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France.
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