- First name
- Hugo
- Last name
- Grotius
- Date of Birth
- 1583
- Date of Death
- 1645
- Born in
- Delft
- Died in
- Rostock
Hugo Grotius was a Dutch jurist who laid the foundations for international law. He was imprisoned for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books. He wrote most of his major works in exile in France.