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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