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What happened to Hugo Grotius during his final voyage from Stockholm in 1645?

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Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing. — Hugo Grotius Portrait of Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), oil on panel by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, 1631; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

After leaving Stockholm on August 12, 1645, following consultations with Queen Christina, Hugo Grotius set sail for Lübeck. During this voyage, he was shipwrecked on the coast of eastern Pomerania. Following the shipwreck, he traveled to Rostock, where he died of exhaustion on August 28, 1645.12