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Hugo Grotius 1583 - 1645 - Portrait painting by M. J. van Mierevelt. #187518066
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Social history. 1915 Hutchinson`s History of the Nations. Hugo Grotius, also known as Huig de Groot or Hugo de Groot, was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian and jurist. A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. His philosophy of natural law had a major impact on the development of seventeenth century political thought and on the moral theories of the Enlightenment.
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