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Hugo Grotius

When and where was Hugo Grotius born?

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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.

Hugo Grotius, a renowned Dutch jurist and scholar, was born on April 10, 1583, in Delft, Netherlands.1