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Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius (/ˈɡrʃiəs/; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦœyɣ ˈɣroːt]) and Hugo de Groot (Dutch: [ˈɦyɣoː -]), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University. He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the controversies over religious policy of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was transported to Gorinchem. Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France.

Hugo Grotius
Portrait of Hugo Grotius
by Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1631
Born10 April 1583
Died28 August 1645 (aged 62)
Alma materLeiden University
EraRenaissance philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolNatural law, humanism
Academic advisorsJustus Lipsius
Main interests
Philosophy of war, international law, political philosophy
Notable ideas
Theory of natural rights, grounding just war principles in natural law, governmental theory of atonement
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Grotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy, political theory and law during the 16th and 17th centuries. Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, his writings laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law in its Protestant side. Two of his books have had a lasting impact in the field of international law: De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) dedicated to Louis XIII of France and the Mare Liberum (The Free Seas) for which Grotius has been called the "father of international law".[4] Grotius has also contributed significantly to the evolution of the notion of rights. Before him, rights were above all perceived as attached to objects; after him, they are seen as belonging to persons, as the expression of an ability to act or as a means of realizing something.

Peter Borschberg suggests that Grotius was significantly influenced by Francisco de Vitoria and the School of Salamanca in Spain, who supported the idea that the sovereignty of a nation does not lie simply in a ruler through God's will, but originates in its people, who agree to confer such authority upon a ruler.[5] It is also thought that Grotius was not the first to formulate the international society doctrine, but he was one of the first to define expressly the idea of one society of states, governed not by force or warfare but by actual laws and mutual agreement to enforce those laws. As Hedley Bull declared in 1990: "The idea of international society which Grotius propounded was given concrete expression in the Peace of Westphalia, and Grotius may be considered the intellectual father of this first general peace settlement of modern times."[6] Additionally, his contributions to Arminian theology helped provide the seeds for later Arminian-based movements, such as Methodism and Pentecostalism; Grotius is acknowledged as a significant figure in the Arminian-Calvinist debate. Because of his theological underpinning of free trade, he is also considered an "economic theologist".[7]

After fading over time, the influence of Grotius's ideas revived in the 20th century following the First World War.

Early life edit

 
Grotius at age 16, by Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn, 1599

Born in Delft during the Dutch Revolt, Grotius was the first child of Jan Cornets de Groot and Alida van Overschie. His father was a man of learning, once having studied with the eminent Justus Lipsius at Leiden University,[8] as well as of political distinction. His family was considered Delft patrician as his ancestors played an important role in local government since the 13th century.[9]

Jan de Groot was also translator of Archimedes and friend of Ludolph van Ceulen. He groomed his son from an early age in a traditional humanist and Aristotelian education.[10] A prodigious learner, Grotius entered Leiden University when he was just eleven years old.[9] There he studied with some of the most acclaimed intellectuals in northern Europe, including Franciscus Junius, Joseph Justus Scaliger, and Rudolph Snellius.[11] At age 16 (1599), he published his first book: a scholarly edition of the late antique author Martianus Capella's work on the seven liberal arts, Martiani Minei Felicis Capellæ Carthaginiensis viri proconsularis Satyricon. It remained a reference for several centuries.[12]

In 1598, at the age of 15 years, he accompanied Johan van Oldenbarnevelt to a diplomatic mission in Paris. On this occasion, the King Henri IV of France would have presented Grotius to his court as "the miracle of Holland".[13] During his stay in France, he passed or bought a law degree from the University of Orleans.[14] In Holland, Grotius earned an appointment as advocate to The Hague in 1599[15] and then as official historiographer for the States of Holland in 1601. It was on this date that the States of Holland requested from Grotius an account of the United Provinces’ revolt against Spain;[4] Grotius is indeed contemporary with the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands.[14] The resulting work, entitled Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis, describing the period from 1559 to 1609, was written in the style of the Roman historian Tacitus[16] and was first finished in 1612. The States however did not publish it, possibly because of the way the work resonated with the politico-religious tensions within the Dutch Republic (see below).[17]

His first occasion to write systematically on issues of international justice came in 1604, when he became involved in the legal proceedings following the seizure by Dutch merchants of a Portuguese carrack and its cargo in the Singapore Strait.[citation needed] Throughout his life Grotius wrote a variety of philological, theological and politico-theological works.

In 1608, he married Maria van Reigersberch; they had three daughters and four sons.[14]

Jurist career edit

 
Page written in Grotius' hand from the manuscript of De Indis (circa 1604/05)

The Dutch were at war with Spain; although Portugal was closely allied with Spain, it was not yet at war with the Dutch. Near the start of the war, Grotius's cousin captain Jacob van Heemskerk captured a loaded Portuguese carrack merchant ship, Santa Catarina, off present-day Singapore in 1603.[18] Heemskerk was employed with the United Amsterdam Company (part of the Dutch East India Company), and though he did not have authorization from the company or the government to initiate the use of force, many shareholders were eager to accept the riches that he brought back to them.[19]

Not only was the legality of keeping the prize questionable under Dutch statute, but a faction of shareholders (mostly Mennonite) in the Company also objected to the forceful seizure on moral grounds, and of course, the Portuguese demanded the return of their cargo. The scandal led to a public judicial hearing and a wider campaign to sway public (and international) opinion.[citation needed] It was in this wider context that representatives of the Company called upon Grotius to draft a polemical defence of the seizure.[19]

 
Portrait of Grotius at age 25 (Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, 1608)

The result of Grotius' efforts in 1604/05 was a long, theory-laden treatise that he provisionally entitled De Indis (On the Indies). Grotius sought to ground his defense of the seizure in terms of the natural principles of justice. In this, he had cast a net much wider than the case at hand; his interest was in the source and ground of war's lawfulness in general. The treatise was never published in full during Grotius' lifetime, perhaps because the court ruling in favor of the Company preempted the need to garner public support.[citation needed]

In The Free Sea (Mare Liberum, published 1609) Grotius formulated the new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade.[20] Grotius, by claiming 'free seas' (freedom of the seas), provided suitable ideological justification for the Dutch breaking up of various trade monopolies through its formidable naval power. England, competing fiercely with the Dutch for domination of world trade, opposed this idea and claimed in John Selden's Mare clausum (The Closed Sea), "That the Dominion of the British Sea, or That Which Incompasseth the Isle of Great Britain, is, and Ever Hath Been, a Part or Appendant of the Empire of that Island."[21]

It is generally assumed that Grotius first propounded the principle of freedom of the seas, although all countries in the Indian Ocean and other Asian seas accepted the right of unobstructed navigation long before Grotius wrote his De Jure Praedae (On the Law of Spoils) in the year of 1604. Additionally, 16th century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria had postulated the idea of freedom of the seas in a more rudimentary fashion under the principles of jus gentium.[22] Grotius's notion of the freedom of the seas would persist until the mid-20th century, and it continues to be applied even to this day for much of the high seas, though the application of the concept and the scope of its reach is changing.

Arminian controversy, arrest and exile edit

Aided by his continued association with Van Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius made considerable advances in his political career, being retained as Oldenbarnevelt's resident advisor in 1605, Advocate General of the Fisc of Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1607, and then as Pensionary of Rotterdam (the equivalent of a mayoral office) in 1613.[23] Also in 1613, following the capture of two Dutch ships by the British, he was sent on a mission to London,[24] a mission tailored to a man who wrote Mare liberum [The Free Seas] in 1609. However, it was opposed by the English by reason of force and he didn't obtain the return of the boats.[24]

In these years a great theological controversy broke out between the chair of theology at Leiden Jacobus Arminius and his followers (who are called Arminians or Remonstrants) and the strongly Calvinist theologian, Franciscus Gomarus, whose supporters are termed Gomarists or Counter-Remonstrants.[citation needed]

Leiden University "was under the authority of the States of Holland – they were responsible, among other things, for the policy concerning appointments at this institution, which was governed in their name by a board of Curators – and, in the final instance, the States were responsible for dealing with any cases of heterodoxy among the professors."[25] The domestic dissension resulting over Arminius' professorship was overshadowed by the continuing war with Spain, and the professor died in 1609 on the eve of the Twelve Years' Truce. The new peace would move the people's focus to the controversy and Arminius' followers.[citation needed] Grotius played a decisive part in this politico-religious conflict between the Remonstrants, supporters of religious tolerance, and the orthodox Calvinists or Counter-Remonstrants.[24]

Controversy within Dutch Protestantism edit

The controversy expanded when the Remonstrant theologian Conrad Vorstius was appointed to replace Jacobus Arminius as the theology chair at Leiden. Vorstius was soon seen by Counter-Remonstrants as moving beyond the teachings of Arminius into Socinianism and he was accused of teaching irreligion. Leading the call for Vorstius' removal was theology professor Sibrandus Lubbertus. On the other side Johannes Wtenbogaert (a Remonstrant leader) and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, had strongly promoted the appointment of Vorstius and began to defend their actions. Gomarus resigned his professorship at Leyden, in protest that Vorstius was not removed.[citation needed] The Counter-Remonstrants were also supported in their opposition by King James I of England "who thundered loudly against the Leyden nomination and gaudily depicted Vorstius as a horrid heretic. He ordered his books to be publicly burnt in London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and he exerted continual pressure through his ambassador in the Hague, Ralph Winwood, to get the appointment cancelled."[26] James began to shift his confidence from Oldenbarnevelt towards Maurice.

Grotius joined the controversy by defending the civil authorities' power to appoint (independently of the wishes of religious authorities) whomever they wished to a university's faculty. He did this by writing Ordinum Pietas, "a pamphlet...directed against an opponent, the Calvinist Franeker professor Lubbertus; it was ordered by Grotius' masters the States of Holland, and thus written for the occasion – though Grotius may already have had plans for such a book."[27]

The work is twenty-seven pages long, is "polemical and acrimonious" and only two-thirds of it speaks directly about ecclesiastical politics (mainly of synods and offices).[27] The work met with a violent reaction from the Counter-Remonstrants, and "It might be said that all Grotius' next works until his arrest in 1618 form a vain attempt to repair the damage done by this book."[27] Grotius would later write De Satisfactione aiming "at proving that the Arminians are far from being Socinians".[27]

Edict of toleration edit

Led by Oldenbarnevelt, the States of Holland took an official position of religious toleration towards Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants. Grotius, (who acted during the controversy first as Attorney General of Holland, and later as a member of the Committee of Counsellors) was eventually asked to draft an edict to express the policy of toleration.[28] This edict, Decretum pro pace ecclesiarum was completed in late 1613 or early 1614. The edict put into practice a view that Grotius had been developing in his writings on church and state (see Erastianism): that only the basic tenets necessary for undergirding civil order (e.g., the existence of God and His providence) ought to be enforced while differences on obscure theological doctrines should be left to private conscience.[29]

 
Statue of Grotius in Delft, the Netherlands

The edict "imposing moderation and toleration on the ministry", was backed up by Grotius with "thirty-one pages of quotations, mainly dealing with the Five Remonstrant Articles."[27] In response to Grotius' Ordinum Pietas, Professor Lubbertus published Responsio Ad Pietatem Hugonis Grotii in 1614. Later that year Grotius anonymously published Bona Fides Sibrandi Lubberti in response to Lubbertus.[27]

Jacobus Trigland joined Lubberdus in expressing the view that tolerance in matters of doctrine was inadmissible, and in his 1615 works Den Recht-gematigden Christen: Ofte vande waere Moderatie and Advys Over een Concept van moderatie[30] Trigland denounced Grotius' stance.

In late 1615, when Middelburg professor Antonius Walaeus published Het Ampt der Kerckendienaren (a response to Johannes Wtenbogaert's 1610 Tractaet van 't Ampt ende authoriteit eener hoogher Christelijcke overheid in kerckelijkcke zaken) he sent Grotius a copy out of friendship. This was a work "on the relationship between ecclesiastical and secular government" from the moderate counter-remonstrant viewpoint.[27] In early 1616 Grotius also received the 36 page letter championing a remonstrant view Dissertatio epistolica de Iure magistratus in rebus ecclesiasticis from his friend Gerardus Vossius.[27]

The letter was "a general introduction on (in)tolerance, mainly on the subject of predestination and the sacrament...[and] an extensive, detailed and generally unfavourable review of Walaeus' Ampt, stuffed with references to ancient and modern authorities."[27] When Grotius wrote asking for some notes "he received a treasure-house of ecclesiastical history. ...offering ammunition to Grotius, who gratefully accepted it".[27] Around this time (April 1616) Grotius went to Amsterdam as part of his official duties, trying to persuade the civil authorities there to join Holland's majority view about church politics.

In early 1617 Grotius debated the question of giving counter-remonstrants the chance to preach in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague which had been closed. During this time lawsuits were brought against the States of Holland by counter-remonstrant ministers and riots over the controversy broke out in Amsterdam.

Arrest and exile edit

 
Loevestein Castle at the time of Grotius' imprisonment in 1618–21

As the conflict between civil and religious authorities escalated, in order to maintain civil order Oldenbarnevelt eventually proposed that local authorities be given the power to raise troops (the Sharp Resolution of August 4, 1617). Such a measure undermined the unity of the Republic's military force, the very same reason Spain had managed to retake so much lost territory in the 1580s, something the Captain-General of the republic, Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange could not allow with the treaty nearing its end.[citation needed] Maurice seized the opportunity to solidify the preeminence of the Gomarists, whom he had supported, and to eliminate the nuisance he perceived in Oldenbarnevelt (the latter had previously brokered the Twelve Years' Truce with Spain in 1609 against Maurice's wishes). During this time Grotius made another attempt to address ecclesiastical politics by completing De Imperio Summarum Potestatum circa Sacra, on "the relations between the religious and secular authorities...Grotius had even cherished hopes that publication of this book would turn the tide and bring back peace to church and state".[27]

 
Grotius' escape from Loevestein Castle in 1621

The conflict between Maurice and the States of Holland, led by Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius, about the Sharp Resolution and Holland's refusal to allow a National Synod, came to a head in July 1619 when a majority in the States General authorized Maurice to disband the auxiliary troops in Utrecht. Grotius went on a mission to the States of Utrecht to stiffen their resistance against this move, but Maurice prevailed. The States General then authorized him to arrest Oldenbarnevelt, Grotius and Rombout Hogerbeets on 29 August 1618. They were tried by a court of delegated judges from the States General. Van Oldenbarnevelt was sentenced to death and was beheaded in 1619. Grotius was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to Loevestein Castle.[31]

From his imprisonment in Loevestein, Grotius made a written justification of his position "as to my views on the power of the Christian [civil] authorities in ecclesiastical matters, I refer to my...booklet De Pietate Ordinum Hollandiae and especially to an unpublished book De Imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra, where I have treated the matter in more detail...I may summarize my feelings thus: that the [civil] authorities should scrutinize God's Word so thoroughly as to be certain to impose nothing which is against it; if they act in this way, they shall in good conscience have control of the public churches and public worship – but without persecuting those who err from the right way."[27] Because this stripped Church officials of any power some of their members (such as Johannes Althusius in a letter to Lubbertus) declared Grotius' ideas diabolical.[27]

 
A book chest exhibited at Loevestein, presumed to be that in which Grotius escaped in 1621

In 1621, with the help of his wife and his maidservant, Elsje van Houwening, Grotius managed to escape the castle in a book chest and fled to Paris. In the Netherlands today, he is mainly famous for this daring escape. Both the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft claim to have the original book chest in their collection.[32]

Life in Paris edit

Grotius then fled to Paris, where the authorities granted him an annual royal pension.[33] Grotius lived in France almost continuously from 1621 to 1644. His stay coincides with the period (1624-1642) during which the Cardinal Richelieu led France under the authority of Louis XIII. In France in 1625 Grotius published his most famous book, De jure belli ac pacis [On the Law of War and Peace] dedicated to Louis XIII of France.

While in Paris, Grotius set about rendering into Latin prose a work which he had originally written as Dutch verse in prison, providing rudimentary yet systematic arguments for the truth of Christianity. The Dutch poem, Bewijs van den waren Godsdienst, was published in 1622, the Latin treatise in 1627, under the title De veritate religionis Christianae.

In 1631 he tried to return to Holland, but the authorities remained hostile to him. He moved to Hamburg in 1632. But as early as 1634, the Swedes - a European superpower - sent him to Paris as ambassador. He remained ten years in this position where he had the mission to negotiate for Sweden the end of the Thirty Years War. During this period, he had been interested in the unity of Christians and published many texts that will be grouped under the title of Opera Omnia Theologica.

Governmental theory of atonement edit

Grotius also developed a particular view of the atonement of Christ known as the "Governmental theory of atonement". He theorized that Jesus' sacrificial death occurred in order for the Father to forgive while still maintaining his just rule over the universe. This idea, further developed by theologians such as John Miley, became one of the prominent views of the atonement in Methodist Arminianism.[34]

De Jure Belli ac Pacis edit

 
Title page from the second edition (Amsterdam 1631) of De jure belli ac pacis

Living in the times of the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Netherlands and the Thirty Years' War between Catholic and Protestant European nations (Catholic France being in the otherwise Protestant camp), it is not surprising that Grotius was deeply concerned with matters of conflicts between nations and religions. His most lasting work, begun in prison and published during his exile in Paris, was a monumental effort to restrain such conflicts on the basis of a broad moral consensus. Grotius wrote:

Fully convinced...that there is a common law among nations, which is valid alike for war and in war, I have had many and weighty reasons for undertaking to write upon the subject. Throughout the Christian world I observed a lack of restraint in relation to war, such as even barbarous races should be ashamed of; I observed that men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and that when arms have once been taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human; it is as if, in accordance with a general decree, frenzy had openly been let loose for the committing of all crimes.[35]

De jure belli ac pacis libri tres (On the Law of War and Peace: Three books) was first published in 1625, dedicated to Grotius' current patron, Louis XIII. The treatise advances a system of principles of natural law, which are held to be binding on all people and nations regardless of local custom. The work is divided into three books:

  • Book I advances his conception of war and of natural justice, arguing that there are some circumstances in which war is justifiable.
  • Book II identifies three 'just causes' for war: self-defense, reparation of injury, and punishment; Grotius considers a wide variety of circumstances under which these rights of war attach and when they do not.
  • Book III takes up the question of what rules govern the conduct of war once it has begun; influentially, Grotius argued that all parties to war are bound by such rules, whether their cause is just or not.

Natural law edit

 
Engraved portrait of Grotius

Grotius' concept of natural law had a strong impact on the philosophical and theological debates and political developments of the 17th and 18th centuries. Among those he influenced were Samuel Pufendorf and John Locke, and by way of these philosophers his thinking became part of the cultural background of the Glorious Revolution in England and the American Revolution.[36] In Grotius' understanding, nature was not an entity in itself, but God's creation. Therefore, his concept of natural law had a theological foundation.[37] The Old Testament contained moral precepts (e.g. the Decalogue), which Christ confirmed and therefore were still valid. They were useful in interpreting the content of natural law. Both Biblical revelation and natural law originated in God and could therefore not contradict each other.[38]

Later years edit

Many exiled Remonstrants began to return to the Netherlands after the death of Prince Maurice in 1625 when toleration was granted to them. In 1630 they were allowed complete freedom to build and run churches and schools and to live anywhere in Holland. The Remonstrants guided by Johannes Wtenbogaert set up a presbyterial organization. They established a theological seminary at Amsterdam where Grotius came to teach alongside Episcopius, van Limborch, de Courcelles, and Leclerc.

In 1634 Grotius was given the opportunity to serve as Sweden's ambassador to France. Axel Oxenstierna, regent of the successor of the recently deceased Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, was keen to have Grotius in his employ. Grotius accepted the offer and took up diplomatic residence in Paris, which remained his home until he was released from his post in 1645.[citation needed]

In 1644, the queen Christine of Sweden, who had become an adult, began to perform her duties and brought him back to Stockholm. During the winter of 1644–1645 he went to Sweden in difficult conditions, which he decided to leave in the summer of 1645.

While departing from his last visit to Sweden, Grotius was shipwrecked on the voyage. He washed up on the shore of Rostock, ill and weather-beaten, and on August 28, 1645, he died; his body at last returned to the country of his youth, being laid to rest in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft.[39][40]

Personal life edit

 
Syntagma Arateorum

Grotius' personal motto was Ruit hora ("Time is running away"); his last words were purportedly, "By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing" (Door veel te begrijpen, heb ik niets bereikt).[41] Significant friends and acquaintances of his included the theologian Franciscus Junius, the poet Daniel Heinsius, the philologist Gerhard Johann Vossius, the historian Johannes Meursius, the engineer Simon Stevin, the historian Jacques Auguste de Thou, the Orientalist and Arabic scholar Erpinius, and the French ambassador in the Dutch Republic, Benjamin Aubery du Maurier, who allowed him to use the French diplomatic mail in the first years of his exile. He was also friends with the Brabantian Jesuit Andreas Schottus.[42]

Grotius was the father of regent and diplomat Pieter de Groot.

Influence of Grotius edit

Grotius designed his theory to apply not only to states but also to rulers and subjects of law in general. Grotius's masterpiece De Jure Belli ac Pacis thus proved useful in the later development of theories of both private and criminal law.[43]

From his time to the end of the 17th century edit

The king of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus, was said to have always carried a copy of De jure belli ac pacis in his saddle when leading his troops.[44] In contrast, King James VI and I of Great Britain reacted very negatively to Grotius' presentation of the book during a diplomatic mission.[44]

Some philosophers, notably Protestants such as Pierre Bayle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the main representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Thomas Reid held him in high esteem.[44] The French Enlightenment, on the other hand, was much more critical. Voltaire called it boring and Rousseau developed an alternative conception of human nature. Pufendorf, another theoretician of the natural law concept, was also skeptical.[44]

Commentaries of the 18th century edit

Andrew Dickson White wrote:

Into the very midst of all this welter of evil, at a point in time to all appearance hopeless, at a point in space apparently defenseless, in a nation of which every man, woman, and child was under sentence of death from its sovereign, was born a man who wrought as no other has ever done for a redemption of civilization from the main cause of all that misery; who thought out for Europe the precepts of right reason in international law; who made them heard; who gave a noble change to the course of human affairs; whose thoughts, reasonings, suggestions, and appeals produced an environment in which came an evolution of humanity that still continues.[45]

In contrast, Robert A. Heinlein satirized the Grotian governmental approach to theology in Methuselah's Children: "There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.'"[46]

Regain of interest in the 20th century edit

The influence of Grotius declined following the rise of positivism in the field of international law and the decline of the natural law in philosophy.[47] The Carnegie Foundation has nevertheless re-issued and re-translated On the Law of War and Peace after the World War I.[48] At the end of the 20th century, his work aroused renewed interest as a controversy over the originality of his ethical work developed. For Irwing, Grotius would only repeat the contributions of Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez.[49] On the contrary, Schneewind argues that Grotius introduced the idea that "the conflict can not be eradicated and could not be dismissed, even in principle, by the most comprehensive metaphysical knowledge possible of how the world is made up".[50][44]

As far as politics is concerned, Grotius is most often considered not so much as having brought new ideas, but rather as one who has introduced a new way of approaching political problems. For Kingsbury and Roberts, "the most important direct contribution of ["On the Law of War and Peace"] lies in the way it systematically brings together practices and authorities on the traditional but fundamental subject of jus belli, which he organizes for the first time from a body of principles rooted in the law of nature".[51][52]

Bibliography (selection) edit

 
Marble bas-relief of Grotius among 23 reliefs of great historical lawgivers in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol
 
Annotationes ad Vetus Testamentum (1732)

The Peace Palace Library in The Hague holds the Grotius Collection, which has a large number of books by and about Grotius. The collection was based on a donation from Martinus Nijhoff of 55 editions of De jure belli ac pacis libri tres.

Works are listed in order of publication, with the exception of works published posthumously or after long delay (estimated composition dates are given).[53][54] Where an English translation is available, the most recently published translation is listed beneath the title.

  • Martiani Minei Felicis Capellæ Carthaginiensis viri proconsularis Satyricon, in quo De nuptiis Philologiæ & Mercurij libri duo, & De septem artibus liberalibus libri singulares. Omnes, & emendati, & Notis, siue Februis Hug. Grotii illustrati [The Satyricon by Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, a man from Carthage, which includes the two books of 'On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury', and the book named 'On the Seven Liberal Arts'. Everything, including corrections, annotations as well as deletions and illustrations by Hug. Grotius] - 1599
  • Adamus exul (The Exile of Adam; tragedy) – The Hague, 1601
  • De republica emendanda (To Improve the Dutch Republic; manuscript 1601) – pub. The Hague, 1984
  • Parallelon rerumpublicarum (Comparison of Constitutions; manuscript 1601–02) – pub. Haarlem 1801–03
  • De Indis (On the Indies; manuscript 1604–05) – pub. 1868 as De Jure Praedae
  • Christus patiens (The Passion of Christ; tragedy) – Leiden, 1608
  • Mare Liberum (The Free Seas; from chapter 12 of De Indis) – Leiden, 1609
  • De antiquitate reipublicae Batavicae (On the Antiquity of the Batavian Republic) – Leiden, 1610 (An extension of François Vranck's Deduction of 1587[55])
The Antiquity of the Batavian Republic, ed. Jan Waszink and others (van Gorcum, 2000).
  • Meletius (manuscript 1611) – pub. Leiden, 1988
Meletius, ed. G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes (Brill, 1988).
  • Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis (Annals and History of the Low Countries' War; manuscript 1612-13) – pub. Amsterdam, 1657
The Annals and History of the Low-Countrey-warrs, ed. Thomas Manley (London, 1665):
- Modern English translation of the Annales only in: Hugo Grotius, Annals of the War in the Low Countries, ed. with introduction by J. Waszink (Latin/English edition), Leuven UP 2023. Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae, ISBN 978 94 6270 351 3 / eISBN 978 94 6166 485 3, doi:10.11116/9789461664853.
- Modern Dutch translation of the Annales only in: Hugo de Groot, "Kroniek van de Nederlandse Oorlog. De Opstand 1559-1588", ed. Jan Waszink (Nijmegen, Vantilt 2014), with introduction, index, plates.
  • Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas (The Piety of the States of Holland and Westfriesland) – Leiden, 1613
Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas, ed. Edwin Rabbie (Brill, 1995).
  • De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra (On the power of sovereigns concerning religious affairs; manuscript 1614–17) – pub. Paris, 1647
De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra, ed. Harm-Jan van Dam (Brill, 2001).
  • De satisfactione Christi adversus Faustum Socinum (On the satisfaction of Christ against [the doctrines of] Faustus Socinus) – Leiden, 1617
Defensio fidei catholicae de satisfactione Christi, ed. Edwin Rabbie (van Gorcum, 1990).
Grotius, Hugo (1889). A defence of the Catholic faith concerning the satisfaction of Christ against Faustus Socinus (PDF). Andover, MA: W. F. Draper.
  • Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche rechtsgeleertheit (Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence; written in Loevenstein) – pub. The Hague, 1631
The Jurisprudence of Holland, ed. R.W. Lee (Oxford, 1926).
  • Bewijs van den waaren godsdienst (Proof of the True Religion; didactic poem) – Rotterdam, 1622
  • Apologeticus (Defense of the actions which led to his arrest (This was for a long time the only source for what transpired during Grotius' trial in 1619, because the trial record was not published at the time. However, Robert Fruin edited this trial record in[56]) – Paris, 1922
  • De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) – Paris, 1625 (2nd ed. Amsterdam 1631)
Hugo Grotius: On the Law of War and Peace. Student edn. Ed. Stephen C. Neff (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
  • De veritate religionis Christianae (On the Truth of the Christian religion) – Paris, 1627
The Truth of the Christian Religion, ed. John Clarke (Edinburgh, 1819).
  • Sophompaneas (Joseph; tragedy) – Amsterdam, 1635
  • De origine gentium Americanarum dissertatio (Dissertation of the origin of the American peoples) – Paris 1642
  • Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam (The way to religious peace) – Paris, 1642
  • Annotationes in Vetus Testamentum (Commentaries on the Old Testament) – Amsterdam, 1644
  • Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (Commentaries on the New Testament) – Amsterdam and Paris, 1641–50
  • De fato (On Destiny) – Paris, 1648

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Further reading edit

See Catalogue of the Grotius Collection (Peace Palace Library, The Hague) and 'Grotius, Hugo' in Dictionary of Seventeenth Century Dutch Philosophers (Thoemmes Press 2003).

  • Alvarado, Ruben (2018). The Debate That Changed the West: Grotius versus Althusius. Aalten: Pantocrator Press. ISBN 978-90-76660-51-6. OCLC 1060613096.
  • Bayle, Pierre. (1720). "Grotius", in Dictionaire historique et critique, 3rd ed. (Rotterdam: Michel Bohm).
  • Bell, Jordy: Hugo Grotius: Historian. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1980
  • Blom, Andrew (2016). "Hugo Grotius". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  • Blom, H. W.; Winkel, L. C.: Grotius and the Stoa. Van Gorcum Ltd, 2004, 332pp
  • Borschberg, Peter, 2011, Hugo Grotius, the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies, Singapore and Leiden: Singapore University Press and KITLV Press.
  • Brandt, Reinhard: Eigentumstheorien von Grotius bis Kant (Problemata). Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1974, 275pp
  • Brett, Annabel (2 April 2002). "Natural Right and Civil Community: The Civil Philosophy of Hugo Grotius". The Historical Journal. 45 (1): 31–51. doi:10.1017/S0018246X01002102. S2CID 159489997.
  • Buckle, Stephen: Natural Law and the Theory of Property: Grotius to Hume. Oxford University Press, USA, 1993, 344pp
  • Burigny, Jean Lévesque de: The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He was Employed; Together with a Critical Account of His Works. London: printed for A. Millar, 1754. Also Echo Library, 2006.
  • Butler, Charles: The Life of Hugo Grotius: With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands. London: John Murray, 1826.
  • Chappell, Vere: Grotius to Gassendi (Essays on Early Modern Philosophers). Garland Publishing Inc, New York, 1992, 302pp
  • Craig, William Lane (1985). The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Christ During the Deist Controversy. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
  • Dulles, Avery (1999). A History of Apologetics. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock.
  • Dumbauld, Edward, 1969. The Life and Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Edwards, Charles S., 1981. Hugo Grotius, The Miracle of Holland: A Study in Political and Legal Thought. Chicago: Nelson Hall.
  • Falk, Richard A.; Kratochwil, Friedrich; Mendlovitz, Saul H.: International Law: A Contemporary Perspective (Studies on a Just World Order, No 2). Westview Press, 1985, 702pp
  • Feenstra, Robert; Vervliet, Jeroen: Hugo Grotius: Mare Liberum (1609–2009). BRILL, 2009, 178pp
  • Figgis, John Neville: Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius 1414–1625. Cambridge University Press, 1907, 258pp
  • Gellinek, Christian: Hugo Grotius (Twayne's World Authors Series). Twayne Publishers Inc., Boston, U.S., 1986, 161pp
  • Grotiana. Assen, The Netherlands: Royal Van Gorcum Publishers. A journal of Grotius studies, 1980–.
  • Gurvitch, G. (1927). La philosophie du droit de Hugo Grotius et la théorie moderne du droit international,. Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, vol. 34: 365–391.
  • Haakonssen, Knud: Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1996
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  • Haggenmacher, Peter (1983). Grotius et la doctrine de la guerre juste (in French). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
  • Haskell, John D.: Hugo Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of International Law: Secularism, Liberalism, and the Politics of Restatement and Denial. (Emory International Law Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011), H. Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of Intl. Law: Secularism, Liberalism, & the Politics of Restatement & Denial
  • Heering, Jan-Paul: Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion: A Study of His Work De Veritate Religionis Christianae, 1640 (Studies in the History of Christian Thought). Brill Academic, 2004, 304pp
  • Jeffery, Renée: Hugo Grotius in International Thought (Palgrave MacMillan History of International Thought). Palgrave Macmillan, 1st edition, 2006, 224pp
  • Keene, Edward: Beyond the Anarchical Society: Grotius, Colonialism and Order in World Politics. Port Chester, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 2002
  • Kingsbury, Benedict: A Grotian Tradition of Theory and Practice?: Grotius, Law, and Moral Skepticism in the Thought of Hedley Bull. (Quinnipiac Law Review, No.17, 1997)
  • Knight, W.S.M., 1925. The Life and Works of Hugo Grotius. London: Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd.
  • Kowalski, Klaus (2022). Das Vertragsverständnis des Hugo Grotius. Zwischen Gerechtigkeit, Treue und Rechtsübertragung. Cologne: Böhlau. doi:10.7788/9783412524944. ISBN 978-3-412-52492-0. S2CID 248843705.
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  • Mühlegger, Florian. Hugo Grotius. Ein christlicher Humanist in politischer Verantwortung. Berlin and New York, de Gruyter, 2007, XIV, 546 S. (Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 103).
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  • O'Donovan, Oliver. 2004. "The Justice of Assignment and Subjective Rights in Grotius," in Bonds of Imperfection: Christian Politics Past and Present.
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Individual works by Grotius

  • On the Laws of War and Peace (abridged)
  • On the Laws of War and Peace (Latin, first edition 1625)
  • Logicarum disputationum quarta de postpraedicamentis; disputation, aged 14, at Leiden University
  • Physicarum disputationum septima de infinito, loco et vacuo; disputation, aged 14, at Leiden University

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hugo, grotius, hugo, groot, redirects, here, crash, plane, known, under, that, name, flight, april, 1583, august, 1645, also, known, huig, groot, dutch, ˈɦœyɣ, ˈɣroːt, hugo, groot, dutch, ˈɦyɣoː, dutch, humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman. Hugo de Groot redirects here For the crash of the KLM plane known under that name see KLM Flight 607 E Hugo Grotius ˈ ɡ r oʊ ʃ i e s 10 April 1583 28 August 1645 also known as Huig de Groot Dutch ˈɦœyɣ de ˈɣroːt and Hugo de Groot Dutch ˈɦyɣoː was a Dutch humanist diplomat lawyer theologian jurist statesman poet and playwright A teenage prodigy he was born in Delft and studied at Leiden University He was imprisoned in Loevestein Castle for his involvement in the controversies over religious policy of the Dutch Republic but escaped hidden in a chest of books that was transported to Gorinchem Grotius wrote most of his major works in exile in France Hugo GrotiusPortrait of Hugo Grotiusby Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt 1631Born10 April 1583Delft Holland Dutch RepublicDied28 August 1645 aged 62 Rostock Swedish PomeraniaAlma materLeiden UniversityEraRenaissance philosophyRegionWestern philosophySchoolNatural law humanismAcademic advisorsJustus LipsiusMain interestsPhilosophy of war international law political philosophyNotable ideasTheory of natural rights grounding just war principles in natural law governmental theory of atonementSignatureGrotius was a major figure in the fields of philosophy political theory and law during the 16th and 17th centuries Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili his writings laid the foundations for international law based on natural law in its Protestant side Two of his books have had a lasting impact in the field of international law De jure belli ac pacis On the Law of War and Peace dedicated to Louis XIII of France and the Mare Liberum The Free Seas for which Grotius has been called the father of international law 4 Grotius has also contributed significantly to the evolution of the notion of rights Before him rights were above all perceived as attached to objects after him they are seen as belonging to persons as the expression of an ability to act or as a means of realizing something Peter Borschberg suggests that Grotius was significantly influenced by Francisco de Vitoria and the School of Salamanca in Spain who supported the idea that the sovereignty of a nation does not lie simply in a ruler through God s will but originates in its people who agree to confer such authority upon a ruler 5 It is also thought that Grotius was not the first to formulate the international society doctrine but he was one of the first to define expressly the idea of one society of states governed not by force or warfare but by actual laws and mutual agreement to enforce those laws As Hedley Bull declared in 1990 The idea of international society which Grotius propounded was given concrete expression in the Peace of Westphalia and Grotius may be considered the intellectual father of this first general peace settlement of modern times 6 Additionally his contributions to Arminian theology helped provide the seeds for later Arminian based movements such as Methodism and Pentecostalism Grotius is acknowledged as a significant figure in the Arminian Calvinist debate Because of his theological underpinning of free trade he is also considered an economic theologist 7 After fading over time the influence of Grotius s ideas revived in the 20th century following the First World War Contents 1 Early life 2 Jurist career 3 Arminian controversy arrest and exile 3 1 Controversy within Dutch Protestantism 3 2 Edict of toleration 3 3 Arrest and exile 4 Life in Paris 4 1 Governmental theory of atonement 5 De Jure Belli ac Pacis 6 Natural law 7 Later years 8 Personal life 9 Influence of Grotius 9 1 From his time to the end of the 17th century 9 2 Commentaries of the 18th century 9 3 Regain of interest in the 20th century 10 Bibliography selection 11 See also 12 References 12 1 Sources 13 Further reading 14 External linksEarly life edit nbsp Grotius at age 16 by Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn 1599Born in Delft during the Dutch Revolt Grotius was the first child of Jan Cornets de Groot and Alida van Overschie His father was a man of learning once having studied with the eminent Justus Lipsius at Leiden University 8 as well as of political distinction His family was considered Delft patrician as his ancestors played an important role in local government since the 13th century 9 Jan de Groot was also translator of Archimedes and friend of Ludolph van Ceulen He groomed his son from an early age in a traditional humanist and Aristotelian education 10 A prodigious learner Grotius entered Leiden University when he was just eleven years old 9 There he studied with some of the most acclaimed intellectuals in northern Europe including Franciscus Junius Joseph Justus Scaliger and Rudolph Snellius 11 At age 16 1599 he published his first book a scholarly edition of the late antique author Martianus Capella s work on the seven liberal arts Martiani Minei Felicis Capellae Carthaginiensis viri proconsularis Satyricon It remained a reference for several centuries 12 In 1598 at the age of 15 years he accompanied Johan van Oldenbarnevelt to a diplomatic mission in Paris On this occasion the King Henri IV of France would have presented Grotius to his court as the miracle of Holland 13 During his stay in France he passed or bought a law degree from the University of Orleans 14 In Holland Grotius earned an appointment as advocate to The Hague in 1599 15 and then as official historiographer for the States of Holland in 1601 It was on this date that the States of Holland requested from Grotius an account of the United Provinces revolt against Spain 4 Grotius is indeed contemporary with the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Netherlands 14 The resulting work entitled Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis describing the period from 1559 to 1609 was written in the style of the Roman historian Tacitus 16 and was first finished in 1612 The States however did not publish it possibly because of the way the work resonated with the politico religious tensions within the Dutch Republic see below 17 His first occasion to write systematically on issues of international justice came in 1604 when he became involved in the legal proceedings following the seizure by Dutch merchants of a Portuguese carrack and its cargo in the Singapore Strait citation needed Throughout his life Grotius wrote a variety of philological theological and politico theological works In 1608 he married Maria van Reigersberch they had three daughters and four sons 14 Jurist career edit nbsp Page written in Grotius hand from the manuscript of De Indis circa 1604 05 The Dutch were at war with Spain although Portugal was closely allied with Spain it was not yet at war with the Dutch Near the start of the war Grotius s cousin captain Jacob van Heemskerk captured a loaded Portuguese carrack merchant ship Santa Catarina off present day Singapore in 1603 18 Heemskerk was employed with the United Amsterdam Company part of the Dutch East India Company and though he did not have authorization from the company or the government to initiate the use of force many shareholders were eager to accept the riches that he brought back to them 19 Not only was the legality of keeping the prize questionable under Dutch statute but a faction of shareholders mostly Mennonite in the Company also objected to the forceful seizure on moral grounds and of course the Portuguese demanded the return of their cargo The scandal led to a public judicial hearing and a wider campaign to sway public and international opinion citation needed It was in this wider context that representatives of the Company called upon Grotius to draft a polemical defence of the seizure 19 nbsp Portrait of Grotius at age 25 Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt 1608 The result of Grotius efforts in 1604 05 was a long theory laden treatise that he provisionally entitled De Indis On the Indies Grotius sought to ground his defense of the seizure in terms of the natural principles of justice In this he had cast a net much wider than the case at hand his interest was in the source and ground of war s lawfulness in general The treatise was never published in full during Grotius lifetime perhaps because the court ruling in favor of the Company preempted the need to garner public support citation needed In The Free Sea Mare Liberum published 1609 Grotius formulated the new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade 20 Grotius by claiming free seas freedom of the seas provided suitable ideological justification for the Dutch breaking up of various trade monopolies through its formidable naval power England competing fiercely with the Dutch for domination of world trade opposed this idea and claimed in John Selden s Mare clausum The Closed Sea That the Dominion of the British Sea or That Which Incompasseth the Isle of Great Britain is and Ever Hath Been a Part or Appendant of the Empire of that Island 21 It is generally assumed that Grotius first propounded the principle of freedom of the seas although all countries in the Indian Ocean and other Asian seas accepted the right of unobstructed navigation long before Grotius wrote his De Jure Praedae On the Law of Spoils in the year of 1604 Additionally 16th century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria had postulated the idea of freedom of the seas in a more rudimentary fashion under the principles of jus gentium 22 Grotius s notion of the freedom of the seas would persist until the mid 20th century and it continues to be applied even to this day for much of the high seas though the application of the concept and the scope of its reach is changing Arminian controversy arrest and exile editFurther information History of Calvinist Arminian debate Further information Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas Aided by his continued association with Van Oldenbarnevelt Grotius made considerable advances in his political career being retained as Oldenbarnevelt s resident advisor in 1605 Advocate General of the Fisc of Holland Zeeland and Friesland in 1607 and then as Pensionary of Rotterdam the equivalent of a mayoral office in 1613 23 Also in 1613 following the capture of two Dutch ships by the British he was sent on a mission to London 24 a mission tailored to a man who wrote Mare liberum The Free Seas in 1609 However it was opposed by the English by reason of force and he didn t obtain the return of the boats 24 In these years a great theological controversy broke out between the chair of theology at Leiden Jacobus Arminius and his followers who are called Arminians or Remonstrants and the strongly Calvinist theologian Franciscus Gomarus whose supporters are termed Gomarists or Counter Remonstrants citation needed Leiden University was under the authority of the States of Holland they were responsible among other things for the policy concerning appointments at this institution which was governed in their name by a board of Curators and in the final instance the States were responsible for dealing with any cases of heterodoxy among the professors 25 The domestic dissension resulting over Arminius professorship was overshadowed by the continuing war with Spain and the professor died in 1609 on the eve of the Twelve Years Truce The new peace would move the people s focus to the controversy and Arminius followers citation needed Grotius played a decisive part in this politico religious conflict between the Remonstrants supporters of religious tolerance and the orthodox Calvinists or Counter Remonstrants 24 Controversy within Dutch Protestantism edit The controversy expanded when the Remonstrant theologian Conrad Vorstius was appointed to replace Jacobus Arminius as the theology chair at Leiden Vorstius was soon seen by Counter Remonstrants as moving beyond the teachings of Arminius into Socinianism and he was accused of teaching irreligion Leading the call for Vorstius removal was theology professor Sibrandus Lubbertus On the other side Johannes Wtenbogaert a Remonstrant leader and Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Grand Pensionary of Holland had strongly promoted the appointment of Vorstius and began to defend their actions Gomarus resigned his professorship at Leyden in protest that Vorstius was not removed citation needed The Counter Remonstrants were also supported in their opposition by King James I of England who thundered loudly against the Leyden nomination and gaudily depicted Vorstius as a horrid heretic He ordered his books to be publicly burnt in London Cambridge and Oxford and he exerted continual pressure through his ambassador in the Hague Ralph Winwood to get the appointment cancelled 26 James began to shift his confidence from Oldenbarnevelt towards Maurice Grotius joined the controversy by defending the civil authorities power to appoint independently of the wishes of religious authorities whomever they wished to a university s faculty He did this by writing Ordinum Pietas a pamphlet directed against an opponent the Calvinist Franeker professor Lubbertus it was ordered by Grotius masters the States of Holland and thus written for the occasion though Grotius may already have had plans for such a book 27 The work is twenty seven pages long is polemical and acrimonious and only two thirds of it speaks directly about ecclesiastical politics mainly of synods and offices 27 The work met with a violent reaction from the Counter Remonstrants and It might be said that all Grotius next works until his arrest in 1618 form a vain attempt to repair the damage done by this book 27 Grotius would later write De Satisfactione aiming at proving that the Arminians are far from being Socinians 27 Edict of toleration edit Led by Oldenbarnevelt the States of Holland took an official position of religious toleration towards Remonstrants and Counter Remonstrants Grotius who acted during the controversy first as Attorney General of Holland and later as a member of the Committee of Counsellors was eventually asked to draft an edict to express the policy of toleration 28 This edict Decretum pro pace ecclesiarum was completed in late 1613 or early 1614 The edict put into practice a view that Grotius had been developing in his writings on church and state see Erastianism that only the basic tenets necessary for undergirding civil order e g the existence of God and His providence ought to be enforced while differences on obscure theological doctrines should be left to private conscience 29 nbsp Statue of Grotius in Delft the NetherlandsThe edict imposing moderation and toleration on the ministry was backed up by Grotius with thirty one pages of quotations mainly dealing with the Five Remonstrant Articles 27 In response to Grotius Ordinum Pietas Professor Lubbertus published Responsio Ad Pietatem Hugonis Grotii in 1614 Later that year Grotius anonymously published Bona Fides Sibrandi Lubberti in response to Lubbertus 27 Jacobus Trigland joined Lubberdus in expressing the view that tolerance in matters of doctrine was inadmissible and in his 1615 works Den Recht gematigden Christen Ofte vande waere Moderatie and Advys Over een Concept van moderatie 30 Trigland denounced Grotius stance In late 1615 when Middelburg professor Antonius Walaeus published Het Ampt der Kerckendienaren a response to Johannes Wtenbogaert s 1610 Tractaet van t Ampt ende authoriteit eener hoogher Christelijcke overheid in kerckelijkcke zaken he sent Grotius a copy out of friendship This was a work on the relationship between ecclesiastical and secular government from the moderate counter remonstrant viewpoint 27 In early 1616 Grotius also received the 36 page letter championing a remonstrant view Dissertatio epistolica de Iure magistratus in rebus ecclesiasticis from his friend Gerardus Vossius 27 The letter was a general introduction on in tolerance mainly on the subject of predestination and the sacrament and an extensive detailed and generally unfavourable review of Walaeus Ampt stuffed with references to ancient and modern authorities 27 When Grotius wrote asking for some notes he received a treasure house of ecclesiastical history offering ammunition to Grotius who gratefully accepted it 27 Around this time April 1616 Grotius went to Amsterdam as part of his official duties trying to persuade the civil authorities there to join Holland s majority view about church politics In early 1617 Grotius debated the question of giving counter remonstrants the chance to preach in the Kloosterkerk in The Hague which had been closed During this time lawsuits were brought against the States of Holland by counter remonstrant ministers and riots over the controversy broke out in Amsterdam Arrest and exile edit nbsp Loevestein Castle at the time of Grotius imprisonment in 1618 21Main article Trial of Oldenbarnevelt Grotius and Hogerbeets As the conflict between civil and religious authorities escalated in order to maintain civil order Oldenbarnevelt eventually proposed that local authorities be given the power to raise troops the Sharp Resolution of August 4 1617 Such a measure undermined the unity of the Republic s military force the very same reason Spain had managed to retake so much lost territory in the 1580s something the Captain General of the republic Maurice of Nassau Prince of Orange could not allow with the treaty nearing its end citation needed Maurice seized the opportunity to solidify the preeminence of the Gomarists whom he had supported and to eliminate the nuisance he perceived in Oldenbarnevelt the latter had previously brokered the Twelve Years Truce with Spain in 1609 against Maurice s wishes During this time Grotius made another attempt to address ecclesiastical politics by completing De Imperio Summarum Potestatum circa Sacra on the relations between the religious and secular authorities Grotius had even cherished hopes that publication of this book would turn the tide and bring back peace to church and state 27 nbsp Grotius escape from Loevestein Castle in 1621The conflict between Maurice and the States of Holland led by Oldenbarnevelt and Grotius about the Sharp Resolution and Holland s refusal to allow a National Synod came to a head in July 1619 when a majority in the States General authorized Maurice to disband the auxiliary troops in Utrecht Grotius went on a mission to the States of Utrecht to stiffen their resistance against this move but Maurice prevailed The States General then authorized him to arrest Oldenbarnevelt Grotius and Rombout Hogerbeets on 29 August 1618 They were tried by a court of delegated judges from the States General Van Oldenbarnevelt was sentenced to death and was beheaded in 1619 Grotius was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to Loevestein Castle 31 From his imprisonment in Loevestein Grotius made a written justification of his position as to my views on the power of the Christian civil authorities in ecclesiastical matters I refer to my booklet De Pietate Ordinum Hollandiae and especially to an unpublished book De Imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra where I have treated the matter in more detail I may summarize my feelings thus that the civil authorities should scrutinize God s Word so thoroughly as to be certain to impose nothing which is against it if they act in this way they shall in good conscience have control of the public churches and public worship but without persecuting those who err from the right way 27 Because this stripped Church officials of any power some of their members such as Johannes Althusius in a letter to Lubbertus declared Grotius ideas diabolical 27 nbsp A book chest exhibited at Loevestein presumed to be that in which Grotius escaped in 1621In 1621 with the help of his wife and his maidservant Elsje van Houwening Grotius managed to escape the castle in a book chest and fled to Paris In the Netherlands today he is mainly famous for this daring escape Both the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft claim to have the original book chest in their collection 32 Life in Paris editGrotius then fled to Paris where the authorities granted him an annual royal pension 33 Grotius lived in France almost continuously from 1621 to 1644 His stay coincides with the period 1624 1642 during which the Cardinal Richelieu led France under the authority of Louis XIII In France in 1625 Grotius published his most famous book De jure belli ac pacis On the Law of War and Peace dedicated to Louis XIII of France While in Paris Grotius set about rendering into Latin prose a work which he had originally written as Dutch verse in prison providing rudimentary yet systematic arguments for the truth of Christianity The Dutch poem Bewijs van den waren Godsdienst was published in 1622 the Latin treatise in 1627 under the title De veritate religionis Christianae In 1631 he tried to return to Holland but the authorities remained hostile to him He moved to Hamburg in 1632 But as early as 1634 the Swedes a European superpower sent him to Paris as ambassador He remained ten years in this position where he had the mission to negotiate for Sweden the end of the Thirty Years War During this period he had been interested in the unity of Christians and published many texts that will be grouped under the title of Opera Omnia Theologica Governmental theory of atonement edit Grotius also developed a particular view of the atonement of Christ known as the Governmental theory of atonement He theorized that Jesus sacrificial death occurred in order for the Father to forgive while still maintaining his just rule over the universe This idea further developed by theologians such as John Miley became one of the prominent views of the atonement in Methodist Arminianism 34 De Jure Belli ac Pacis editMain article De jure belli ac pacis nbsp Title page from the second edition Amsterdam 1631 of De jure belli ac pacisLiving in the times of the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Netherlands and the Thirty Years War between Catholic and Protestant European nations Catholic France being in the otherwise Protestant camp it is not surprising that Grotius was deeply concerned with matters of conflicts between nations and religions His most lasting work begun in prison and published during his exile in Paris was a monumental effort to restrain such conflicts on the basis of a broad moral consensus Grotius wrote Fully convinced that there is a common law among nations which is valid alike for war and in war I have had many and weighty reasons for undertaking to write upon the subject Throughout the Christian world I observed a lack of restraint in relation to war such as even barbarous races should be ashamed of I observed that men rush to arms for slight causes or no cause at all and that when arms have once been taken up there is no longer any respect for law divine or human it is as if in accordance with a general decree frenzy had openly been let loose for the committing of all crimes 35 De jure belli ac pacis libri tres On the Law of War and Peace Three books was first published in 1625 dedicated to Grotius current patron Louis XIII The treatise advances a system of principles of natural law which are held to be binding on all people and nations regardless of local custom The work is divided into three books Book I advances his conception of war and of natural justice arguing that there are some circumstances in which war is justifiable Book II identifies three just causes for war self defense reparation of injury and punishment Grotius considers a wide variety of circumstances under which these rights of war attach and when they do not Book III takes up the question of what rules govern the conduct of war once it has begun influentially Grotius argued that all parties to war are bound by such rules whether their cause is just or not Further information Temperamenta belliNatural law edit nbsp Engraved portrait of GrotiusGrotius concept of natural law had a strong impact on the philosophical and theological debates and political developments of the 17th and 18th centuries Among those he influenced were Samuel Pufendorf and John Locke and by way of these philosophers his thinking became part of the cultural background of the Glorious Revolution in England and the American Revolution 36 In Grotius understanding nature was not an entity in itself but God s creation Therefore his concept of natural law had a theological foundation 37 The Old Testament contained moral precepts e g the Decalogue which Christ confirmed and therefore were still valid They were useful in interpreting the content of natural law Both Biblical revelation and natural law originated in God and could therefore not contradict each other 38 Later years editMany exiled Remonstrants began to return to the Netherlands after the death of Prince Maurice in 1625 when toleration was granted to them In 1630 they were allowed complete freedom to build and run churches and schools and to live anywhere in Holland The Remonstrants guided by Johannes Wtenbogaert set up a presbyterial organization They established a theological seminary at Amsterdam where Grotius came to teach alongside Episcopius van Limborch de Courcelles and Leclerc In 1634 Grotius was given the opportunity to serve as Sweden s ambassador to France Axel Oxenstierna regent of the successor of the recently deceased Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus was keen to have Grotius in his employ Grotius accepted the offer and took up diplomatic residence in Paris which remained his home until he was released from his post in 1645 citation needed In 1644 the queen Christine of Sweden who had become an adult began to perform her duties and brought him back to Stockholm During the winter of 1644 1645 he went to Sweden in difficult conditions which he decided to leave in the summer of 1645 While departing from his last visit to Sweden Grotius was shipwrecked on the voyage He washed up on the shore of Rostock ill and weather beaten and on August 28 1645 he died his body at last returned to the country of his youth being laid to rest in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft 39 40 Personal life edit nbsp Syntagma ArateorumGrotius personal motto was Ruit hora Time is running away his last words were purportedly By understanding many things I have accomplished nothing Door veel te begrijpen heb ik niets bereikt 41 Significant friends and acquaintances of his included the theologian Franciscus Junius the poet Daniel Heinsius the philologist Gerhard Johann Vossius the historian Johannes Meursius the engineer Simon Stevin the historian Jacques Auguste de Thou the Orientalist and Arabic scholar Erpinius and the French ambassador in the Dutch Republic Benjamin Aubery du Maurier who allowed him to use the French diplomatic mail in the first years of his exile He was also friends with the Brabantian Jesuit Andreas Schottus 42 Grotius was the father of regent and diplomat Pieter de Groot Influence of Grotius editGrotius designed his theory to apply not only to states but also to rulers and subjects of law in general Grotius s masterpiece De Jure Belli ac Pacis thus proved useful in the later development of theories of both private and criminal law 43 From his time to the end of the 17th century edit The king of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus was said to have always carried a copy of De jure belli ac pacis in his saddle when leading his troops 44 In contrast King James VI and I of Great Britain reacted very negatively to Grotius presentation of the book during a diplomatic mission 44 Some philosophers notably Protestants such as Pierre Bayle Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the main representatives of the Scottish Enlightenment Francis Hutcheson Adam Smith David Hume Thomas Reid held him in high esteem 44 The French Enlightenment on the other hand was much more critical Voltaire called it boring and Rousseau developed an alternative conception of human nature Pufendorf another theoretician of the natural law concept was also skeptical 44 Commentaries of the 18th century edit Andrew Dickson White wrote Into the very midst of all this welter of evil at a point in time to all appearance hopeless at a point in space apparently defenseless in a nation of which every man woman and child was under sentence of death from its sovereign was born a man who wrought as no other has ever done for a redemption of civilization from the main cause of all that misery who thought out for Europe the precepts of right reason in international law who made them heard who gave a noble change to the course of human affairs whose thoughts reasonings suggestions and appeals produced an environment in which came an evolution of humanity that still continues 45 In contrast Robert A Heinlein satirized the Grotian governmental approach to theology in Methuselah s Children There is an old old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation The Almighty he explained finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores 46 Regain of interest in the 20th century edit The influence of Grotius declined following the rise of positivism in the field of international law and the decline of the natural law in philosophy 47 The Carnegie Foundation has nevertheless re issued and re translated On the Law of War and Peace after the World War I 48 At the end of the 20th century his work aroused renewed interest as a controversy over the originality of his ethical work developed For Irwing Grotius would only repeat the contributions of Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suarez 49 On the contrary Schneewind argues that Grotius introduced the idea that the conflict can not be eradicated and could not be dismissed even in principle by the most comprehensive metaphysical knowledge possible of how the world is made up 50 44 As far as politics is concerned Grotius is most often considered not so much as having brought new ideas but rather as one who has introduced a new way of approaching political problems For Kingsbury and Roberts the most important direct contribution of On the Law of War and Peace lies in the way it systematically brings together practices and authorities on the traditional but fundamental subject of jus belli which he organizes for the first time from a body of principles rooted in the law of nature 51 52 Bibliography selection edit nbsp Marble bas relief of Grotius among 23 reliefs of great historical lawgivers in the chamber of the U S House of Representatives in the United States Capitol nbsp Annotationes ad Vetus Testamentum 1732 The Peace Palace Library in The Hague holds the Grotius Collection which has a large number of books by and about Grotius The collection was based on a donation from Martinus Nijhoff of 55 editions of De jure belli ac pacis libri tres Works are listed in order of publication with the exception of works published posthumously or after long delay estimated composition dates are given 53 54 Where an English translation is available the most recently published translation is listed beneath the title Martiani Minei Felicis Capellae Carthaginiensis viri proconsularis Satyricon in quo De nuptiis Philologiae amp Mercurij libri duo amp De septem artibus liberalibus libri singulares Omnes amp emendati amp Notis siue Februis Hug Grotii illustrati The Satyricon by Martianus Minneus Felix Capella a man from Carthage which includes the two books of On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury and the book named On the Seven Liberal Arts Everything including corrections annotations as well as deletions and illustrations by Hug Grotius 1599 Adamus exul The Exile of Adam tragedy The Hague 1601 De republica emendanda To Improve the Dutch Republic manuscript 1601 pub The Hague 1984 Parallelon rerumpublicarum Comparison of Constitutions manuscript 1601 02 pub Haarlem 1801 03 De Indis On the Indies manuscript 1604 05 pub 1868 as De Jure Praedae Christus patiens The Passion of Christ tragedy Leiden 1608 Mare Liberum The Free Seas from chapter 12 of De Indis Leiden 1609 De antiquitate reipublicae Batavicae On the Antiquity of the Batavian Republic Leiden 1610 An extension of Francois Vranck s Deduction of 1587 55 The Antiquity of the Batavian Republic ed Jan Waszink and others van Gorcum 2000 Meletius manuscript 1611 pub Leiden 1988Meletius ed G H M Posthumus Meyjes Brill 1988 Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis Annals and History of the Low Countries War manuscript 1612 13 pub Amsterdam 1657The Annals and History of the Low Countrey warrs ed Thomas Manley London 1665 Modern English translation of the Annales only in Hugo Grotius Annals of the War in the Low Countries ed with introduction by J Waszink Latin English edition Leuven UP 2023 Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae ISBN 978 94 6270 351 3 eISBN 978 94 6166 485 3 doi 10 11116 9789461664853 Modern Dutch translation of the Annales only in Hugo de Groot Kroniek van de Nederlandse Oorlog De Opstand 1559 1588 ed Jan Waszink Nijmegen Vantilt 2014 with introduction index plates Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas The Piety of the States of Holland and Westfriesland Leiden 1613Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae pietas ed Edwin Rabbie Brill 1995 De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra On the power of sovereigns concerning religious affairs manuscript 1614 17 pub Paris 1647De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra ed Harm Jan van Dam Brill 2001 De satisfactione Christi adversus Faustum Socinum On the satisfaction of Christ against the doctrines of Faustus Socinus Leiden 1617Defensio fidei catholicae de satisfactione Christi ed Edwin Rabbie van Gorcum 1990 Grotius Hugo 1889 A defence of the Catholic faith concerning the satisfaction of Christ against Faustus Socinus PDF Andover MA W F Draper Inleydinge tot de Hollantsche rechtsgeleertheit Introduction to Dutch Jurisprudence written in Loevenstein pub The Hague 1631The Jurisprudence of Holland ed R W Lee Oxford 1926 Bewijs van den waaren godsdienst Proof of the True Religion didactic poem Rotterdam 1622 Apologeticus Defense of the actions which led to his arrest This was for a long time the only source for what transpired during Grotius trial in 1619 because the trial record was not published at the time However Robert Fruin edited this trial record in 56 Paris 1922 De jure belli ac pacis On the Law of War and Peace Paris 1625 2nd ed Amsterdam 1631 Hugo Grotius On the Law of War and Peace Student edn Ed Stephen C Neff Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 De veritate religionis Christianae On the Truth of the Christian religion Paris 1627The Truth of the Christian Religion ed John Clarke Edinburgh 1819 Sophompaneas Joseph tragedy Amsterdam 1635 De origine gentium Americanarum dissertatio Dissertation of the origin of the American peoples Paris 1642 Via ad pacem ecclesiasticam The way to religious peace Paris 1642 Annotationes in Vetus Testamentum Commentaries on the Old Testament Amsterdam 1644 Annotationes in 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Waldron 2002 Wolf 1986 Elze 1958 Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Delft Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 07 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 954 Spuyman Ceren 10 December 2019 Hugo de Groot one of the greatest Dutch thinkers of all time DutchReview Retrieved 28 August 2020 Miller 2014 While they are probably apocryphal his supposed last words By attempting many things I have accomplished nothing do evoke the span of his life s work and his personal assessment of the results H M 1988 note 67 Hugo Grotius Later life Britannica www britannica com Retrieved 21 April 2023 a b c d e Miller 2014 p 25 White 1910 Heinlein 1958 p 324 Forde 1998 p 639 Acton Institute 2010 Irving 2008 Schneewind 1993 Bull Roberts amp Kingsbury 2003 Introduction Miller 2014 p 24 Peace Palace The Hague 1983 van Bunge 2017 Leeb 1973 Fruin 1871 Sources edit Acton Institute 2010 Hugo Grotius Religion amp Liberty 9 6 Bull Hedley Roberts Adam Kingsbury Benedict 2003 Hugo Grotius and International Relations Oxford Oxford UP ISBN 978 0 19 825569 7 Elze M 1958 Grotius Hugo Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart in German Tubingen Germany Mohr 3 Forde Steven 1998 Hugo Grotius on Ethics and War The American Political Science Review 92 3 639 648 doi 10 2307 2585486 JSTOR 2585486 S2CID 143831729 Fruin R 1871 Verhooren en andere bescheiden betreffende het rechtsgeding van Hugo de Groot Google Books in Dutch Kemink en Zn Retrieved 26 January 2019 Grotius Hugo Kelsey Francis W 1925 The Law of War and Peace Washington D C Carnegie Institution of Washington Grotius Hugo Rabbie Edwin 1995 Hugo Grotius Ordinum Hollandiae ac Westfrisiae Pietas 1613 New York Brill Grotius Hugo Blom Hans W 2009 Property Piracy and Punishment Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De Iure Praedae Concepts and Contexts Leiden Brill Heinlein Guillaume 1988 Hugo Grotius Meletius sive De iis quae inter Christianos conveniunt Epistola Critical Edition with Translation Commentary and Introduction Brill p 33 Heinlein Robert A 1958 Revolt in 2100 amp 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concise history of the law of nations 1st ed New York Macmillan Co p 62 Palladini Fiammetta January 2012 The Image of Christ in Grotius s De Veritate Religionis Christianae Some Thoughts on Grotius s Socinianism Grotiana Leiden Brill Publishers 33 1 58 69 doi 10 1163 18760759 03300003 eISSN 1876 0759 ISSN 0167 3831 Peace Palace The Hague 1983 Catalogue of the Grotius Collection Assen Van Gorcum Schneewind J B 1993 Kant and natural law ethics Ethics vol 104 53 74 Selden John 1652 Mare Clausum Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea London Printed by William Du Gard by appointment of the Council of State and sold at the Sign of the Ship at the New Exchange Slot Loevestein 2019 Hugo de Groot Slot Loevestein Slot Loevestein in Dutch Retrieved 28 November 2019 Stahl William H 1965 To a Better Understanding of Martianus Capella Speculum 40 1 102 115 doi 10 2307 2856467 JSTOR 2856467 S2CID 161708230 Thumfart Johannes 2009 On Grotius s Mare liberum and Vitoria s de indis following Agamben and Schmitt Grotiana 30 1 65 87 doi 10 1163 016738309X12537002674286 Tooley W Andrew 2013 Reinventing Redemption The Methodist Doctrine of Atonement in Britain and America in the Long Nineteenth Century PDF Phd thesis Stirling University of Stirling van Bunge Wiep 2017 Grotius Hugo Dictionary of Seventeenth Century Dutch Philosophers England Bloomsbury Van Dam Harm Jan 1994 De Imperio Summarum Potestatum Circa Sacra In Henk J M Nellen amp Edwin Rabbie ed Hugo Grotius Theologian Essays in Honor of G H M Posthumus Meyjes New York E J Brill van Ittersum Martine Julia 2006 Hugo Grotius Natural Rights Theories and the Rise of Dutch Power in the East Indies 1595 1615 Boston Brill ISBN 978 90 04 14979 3 Waldron Jeremy 2002 God Locke and Equality Christian Foundations in Locke s Political Thought Cambridge UK Cambridge University Press pp 189 208 ISBN 978 0 521 89057 1 von Siebold Philipp Franz 1847 Necrologie de Jhr Hugo Cornets de Groot Le Moniteur des Indes Orientales et Occidentales in French 3 3 Vreeland Hamilton 1917 Hugo Grotius The Father of the Modern Science of International Law New York Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 8377 2702 8 Retrieved 16 February 2019 via Internet Archive White Andrew Dickson 1910 Seven great Statesmen in the warfare of humanity with unreason By Andrew Dickson White New York Century Co Wolf Ernst 1986 Naturrecht Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart in German Tubingen Germany Mohr 3 Further reading editSee Catalogue of the Grotius Collection Peace Palace Library The Hague and Grotius Hugo in Dictionary of Seventeenth Century Dutch Philosophers Thoemmes Press 2003 Alvarado Ruben 2018 The Debate That Changed the West Grotius versus Althusius Aalten Pantocrator Press ISBN 978 90 76660 51 6 OCLC 1060613096 Bayle Pierre 1720 Grotius in Dictionaire historique et critique 3rd ed Rotterdam Michel Bohm Bell Jordy Hugo Grotius Historian Ann Arbor MI University Microfilms 1980 Blom Andrew 2016 Hugo Grotius Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Retrieved 12 January 2016 Blom H W Winkel L C Grotius and the Stoa Van Gorcum Ltd 2004 332pp Borschberg Peter 2011 Hugo Grotius the Portuguese and Free Trade in the East Indies Singapore and Leiden Singapore University Press and KITLV Press Brandt Reinhard Eigentumstheorien von Grotius bis Kant Problemata Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt Frommann Holzboog 1974 275pp Brett Annabel 2 April 2002 Natural Right and Civil Community The Civil Philosophy of Hugo Grotius The Historical Journal 45 1 31 51 doi 10 1017 S0018246X01002102 S2CID 159489997 Buckle Stephen Natural Law and the Theory of Property Grotius to Hume Oxford University Press USA 1993 344pp Burigny Jean Levesque de The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He was Employed Together with a Critical Account of His Works London printed for A Millar 1754 Also Echo Library 2006 Butler Charles The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil Ecclesiastical and Literary History of the Netherlands London John Murray 1826 Chappell Vere Grotius to Gassendi Essays on Early Modern Philosophers Garland Publishing Inc New York 1992 302pp Craig William Lane 1985 The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Christ During the Deist Controversy Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press Dulles Avery 1999 A History of Apologetics Eugene Oregon Wipf amp Stock Dumbauld Edward 1969 The Life and Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius Norman OK University of Oklahoma Press Edwards Charles S 1981 Hugo Grotius The Miracle of Holland A Study in Political and Legal Thought Chicago Nelson Hall Falk Richard A Kratochwil Friedrich Mendlovitz Saul H International Law A Contemporary Perspective Studies on a Just World Order No 2 Westview Press 1985 702pp Feenstra Robert Vervliet Jeroen Hugo Grotius Mare Liberum 1609 2009 BRILL 2009 178pp Figgis John Neville Studies of Political Thought from Gerson to Grotius 1414 1625 Cambridge University Press 1907 258pp Gellinek Christian Hugo Grotius Twayne s World Authors Series Twayne Publishers Inc Boston U S 1986 161pp Grotiana Assen The Netherlands Royal Van Gorcum Publishers A journal of Grotius studies 1980 Gurvitch G 1927 La philosophie du droit de Hugo Grotius et la theorie moderne du droit international Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale vol 34 365 391 Haakonssen Knud Natural Law and Moral Philosophy From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment Cambridge University Press 1996 Haakonssen Knud 19 August 2016 Hugo Grotius and the History of Political Thought Political Theory 13 2 239 265 doi 10 1177 0090591785013002005 S2CID 144743124 Haggenmacher Peter 1983 Grotius et la doctrine de la guerre juste in French Paris Presses Universitaires de France Haskell John D Hugo Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of International Law Secularism Liberalism and the Politics of Restatement and Denial Emory International Law Review Vol 25 No 1 2011 H Grotius in the Contemporary Memory of Intl Law Secularism Liberalism amp the Politics of Restatement amp Denial Heering Jan Paul Hugo Grotius As Apologist for the Christian Religion A Study of His Work De Veritate Religionis Christianae 1640 Studies in the History of Christian Thought Brill Academic 2004 304pp Jeffery Renee Hugo Grotius in International Thought Palgrave MacMillan History of International Thought Palgrave Macmillan 1st edition 2006 224pp Keene Edward Beyond the Anarchical Society Grotius Colonialism and Order in World Politics Port Chester N Y Cambridge University Press 2002 Kingsbury Benedict A Grotian Tradition of Theory and Practice Grotius Law and Moral Skepticism in the Thought of Hedley Bull Quinnipiac Law Review No 17 1997 Knight W S M 1925 The Life and Works of Hugo Grotius London Sweet amp Maxwell Ltd Kowalski Klaus 2022 Das Vertragsverstandnis des Hugo Grotius Zwischen Gerechtigkeit Treue und Rechtsubertragung Cologne Bohlau doi 10 7788 9783412524944 ISBN 978 3 412 52492 0 S2CID 248843705 Lauterpacht Hersch 1946 The Grotian Tradition in International Law in British Yearbook of International Law Leger James St 1962 The Etiamsi Daremus of Hugo Grotius A Study in the Origins of International Law Rome Pontificium Athenaeum Internationale Li Hansong 2019 Time right and the justice of war and peace in Hugo Grotius s political thought History of European Ideas 45 4 536 552 doi 10 1080 01916599 2018 1559750 S2CID 149954929 Mattei Jean Mathieu 2006 Histoire du droit de la guerre 1700 1819 Introduction a l histoire du droit international avec une biographie des principaux auteurs de la doctrine de l antiquite a nos jours in French Aix en Provence Presses universitaires d Aix en Provence Muhlegger Florian Hugo Grotius Ein christlicher Humanist in politischer Verantwortung Berlin and New York de Gruyter 2007 XIV 546 S Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte 103 Neff Stephen C Hugo Grotius On the Law of War and Peace Student Edition Cambridge University Press 2012 546pp Nellen Henk J M 2007 Hugo de Groot Een leven in strijd om de vrede official Dutch State biography The Hague Balans Publishing and Rabbie eds 1994 Hugo Grotius Theologian New York E J Brill O Donovan Oliver 2004 The Justice of Assignment and Subjective Rights in Grotius in Bonds of Imperfection Christian Politics Past and Present O Donovan Oliver O Donovan Joan Lockwood From Irenaeus to Grotius A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Company 1999 858pp Onuma Yasuaki ed A Normative Approach to War Peace War and Justice in Hugo Grotius Oxford Clarendon Press 1993 421pp Osgood Samuel Hugo Grotius and the Arminians Hila MT Kessinger Pub 2007 Powell Jim Powell James Johnson Paul The Triumph of Liberty A 2 000 Year History Told Through the Lives of Freedom s Greatest Champions Free Press 1st edition 2002 574pp Rattigan William 1913 GROTIUS In Macdonell John Manson Edward William Donoghue eds Great Jurists of the World London John Murray pp 169 184 Retrieved 11 March 2019 via Internet Archive Remec Peter Paul 1960 The Position of the Individual in International Law according to Grotius and Vattel The Hague Nijhoff Rommen Heinrich The Natural Law A Study in Legal and Social History and Philosophy Salter John 2001 Hugo Grotius Property and Consent Political Theory 29 no 4 537 55 Salter John Adam Smith and the Grotian Theory of Property The British Journal of Politics amp International Relations Volume 12 Issue 1 February 2010 p 3 21 Scharf Michael P Customary International Law in Times of Fundamental Change Recognizing Grotian Moments Cambridge University Press 2013 Scott Jonathan The Law of war Grotius Sidney Locke and the political theory of rebellion in Simon Groenveld and Michael Wintle eds Britain and the Netherlands vol XI The Exchange of Ideas pp 115 32 Sommerville Johann P Selden Grotius and the Seventeenth Century Intellectual Revolution in Moral and Political Theory in Victoria Kahn and Lorna Hutson eds Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe New Haven Yale University Press 2001 pp 318 44 Straumann Benjamin Hugo Grotius und die Antike Romisches Recht und romische Ethik im fruhneuzeitlichen Naturrecht Baden Baden NOMOS 2007 Stumpf Christoph A 2006 The Grotian Theology of International Law Hugo Grotius and the Moral Fundament of International Relations Berlin Walter de Gruyter Takahashi Sakuyei The Influence of Grotius in the Far East Brooklyn NY Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Dept of Law 1908 Thomson E 15 November 2007 France s Grotian moment Hugo Grotius and Cardinal Richelieu s commercial statecraft French History 21 4 377 394 doi 10 1093 fh crm053 Johannes Thumfart The Economic Theology of Free Trade On the relationship between Hugo Grotius s Mare Liberum and Francisco de Vitoria s Relectio de Indis recenter inventis following Giorgio Agamben s enhancement of Carl Schmitt s notion of Political Theology In Grotiana 30 2009 pp 65 87 Tooke Joan D The Just War in Aquinas and Grotius S P C K 1965 337pp Tuck Richard Natural Rights Theories Their Origin and Development Cambridge England Cambridge University Press 1982 196pp 1993 Philosophy and Government 1572 1651 Cambridge Univ Press 1999 The Rights of War and Peace Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant Oxford Univ Press van Ittersum Martine Julia 2007 Preparing Mare liberum for the Press Hugo Grotius Rewriting of Chapter 12 of De iure praedae in November December 1608 2005 2007 26 28 Grotiana 246 van Vollenhoven Cornelius 1926 Grotius and Geneva Bibliotheca Visseriana Vol VI 1919 Three Stages in the Evolution of International Law The Hague Nijhoff Waszink Jan 13 September 2012 Lipsius and Grotius Tacitism History of European Ideas 39 2 151 168 doi 10 1080 01916599 2012 679114 S2CID 154860314 2021 Hugo Grotius Historical Writings in R Lesaffer and J Nijman eds The Cambridge Companion to Hugo Grotius Cambridge UP p 315 338 chapter 15 doi https doi org 10 1017 9781108182751 021 Weeramantry Christopher The Grotius Lecture Series Opening Tribute to Hugo Grotius First Grotius Lecture 1999 Wight Martin International Theory the Three Traditions Leicester University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs 1996 286pp Wight Martin author Wight Gabriele ed Porter Brian ed Four Seminal Thinkers in International Theory Machiavelli Grotius Kant and Mazzini Oxford University Press USA 2005 230 pp Wilson Eric Savage Republic De Indis of Hugo Grotius Republicanism and Dutch Hegemony within the Early Modern World System c 1600 1619 Martinus Nijhoff 2008 534p Zuckert Michael P Natural Rights and the New Republicanism Princeton University Press 1998 410ppExternal links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hugo Grotius nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Hugo Grotius nbsp Wikisource has original works by or about Hugo Grotius Collections Works by Hugo Grotius at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Hugo Grotius at Internet Archive Works by Hugo Grotius at LibriVox public domain audiobooks nbsp Works by 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