Hugo Grotius

Noun

Meaning

Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Grotius Huig de Groot

Examples

Hugo Grotius (1625), Thomas Hobbes (1651), Samuel Pufendorf (1673), John Locke (1689), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1762), and Immanuel Kant (1797) are among the most prominent of 17th- and 18th-century theorists of social contract and natural rights. Source: Internet

Contemporary Dutch virtues of independence, fortitude and industry were fully recognizable among the Batavians in more scholarly history represented in Hugo Grotius ' Liber de Antiquitate Republicae Batavicorum (1610). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto Hugo De Vries Hugo deVries Hugo Junkers Hugo von Hoffmannsthal Hugo Wolf