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Which scholar helped develop Hugo Grotius’s skills as a philologist at Leiden University?

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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.

At Leiden University, the renowned humanist Joseph Scaliger served as a mentor to Hugo Grotius. Scaliger’s guidance contributed significantly to Grotius’s development as a philologist.1