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Where did Hugo Grotius die 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.

Hugo Grotius died in Rostock in 1645. After leaving Stockholm in August 1645, he was shipwrecked on the coast of eastern Pomerania and subsequently died of exhaustion.1