'Grotius', (1583-1645), 1830. Hugo Grotius or Huig de Groot (1583-1645) Dutch jurist who laid foundations for international law, based on natural law, imprisoned for involvement with intra-Calvinist disputes het escaped hidden in a chest of books and wrote most of his major works in exile in France. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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