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Grotius, Hugo

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Grotius, Hugo (or Huig de Groot) (1583–1645) Dutch jurist and diplomat. His fame rests on the legal treatise De Jure Belli et Pacis, written in exile in Paris and published in 1625, which established the basis of modern international law.

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