Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, or Hugo de Groot; Delft, 10th April 1583 - Rostock, 28th August 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. He was also a philosopher, Christian apologist, playwright, poet, and influential thinker.

Works

• De republica emendanda (To improve the Dutch republic) - 1601
• Parallelon rerumpublicarum (Comparison of constitutions) - 1602
• De iure praedae (On the right of capture), including Mare liberum (The Free Seas) - 1604
• De antiquitate reipublicae Batavicae (The antiquity of Dutch republic) - 1610
• Ordinum pietas (The piety of the States) - 1613
• Defensio fidei catholicae de satisfactione (Defense of the Christian faith)- 1617
• De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625
• De veritate religionis Christianae (On the truth of the Christian religion) - 1627
• Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche rechtsgeleertheit (Introduction to Dutch law) - 1631
• Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam (The way to religious peace) - 1642
• De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra (On the power of sovereigns concerning religious affairs) - 1647
• De fato (On destiny) - 1648
• Annales et historiae de rebus Belgicis (Annals and history of the Netherlands) - 1657