GROTIUS, HUGO

( (Latin), ) born April 10, 1583, Delft, Neth. died Aug. 28, 1645, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Dutch Hugo, or Huigh, or Hugeianus De Groot Dutch jurist and scholar, whose legal masterpiece, De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace), was one of the first great contributions to modern international law. Additional reading For a bibliography of the works of Grotius, see J. ter Meulen and P.J.J. Diermanse, Bibliographie des crits imprims de Hugo Grotius (1950) and Bibliographie des crits sur Hugo Grotius, imprims au XVIIe sicle (1961). A recent collection of Grotius' correspondence is Briefwisseling van Hugo Grotius, 6 vol., ed. by P.C. Molhuijsen, vol. 12 (192836) and by B.L. Meulenbroek, vol. 36 (196167). An English translation of Grotius' Adamus Exul is in W. Kirkconnell, The Celestial Cycle (1952).Editions of Grotius' works on jurisprudence include: R. Fruin (ed.), De iure praedae commentarius (1868). This appeared in an English translation as: De jure praedae commentarius. Commentary on the Law of Prize and Booty, 2 vol. (1950). For the De iure, see P.C. Molhuijsen (ed.), Hugonis Grotii de Jure Belli ac Pacis libri tres (1919). This was translated into English and appeared in The Classics of International Law with an introduction by J.B. Scott (1925). See also: C. van Vollenhoven, Verspreide geschriften, pp. 349602 (1934), and The Framework of Grotius' Book De Jure Belli ac Pacis, 1625 (1931); G.N. Clark and W.J.M. van Eysinga (eds.), The Colonial Conferences Between England and the Netherlands in 1613 and 1615, 2 vol. (194051); and Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, The Grotian Tradition in International Law, British Yearbook of International Law, 23:153 (1946).A major work of scholarship on Grotius is the edition of his Latin poems, De Dichtwerken van H.G. (1970 ), which includes the Latin text, a Dutch translation, and a thorough commentary.Biographies of Grotius are: W.S.M. Knight, The Life and Works of Hugo Grotius (1925); and A. Lysen (ed.), Hugo Grotius: Essays on His Life and Works, 2 vol. (1925).