GROTIUS, HUGO, HUIG VAN

and jurist; 6. Delft; entered profe ion of law; wrote Latin plays and verses; app. historiographer to United Provinces, 1603; sent to England to make arrangements concerning Green land whale fisheries, 1613. In the disputes in Holland between rigid Calvinists and the followers of Arm in i us, G. tried to restrain the Calvin ist clergy by maintaining supremacy of State in Church affairs, and composed edict counselling toleration, the publication of which aroused popular resentment. G. was arrested and sentenced to lifelong confinement; but his wife, who shared his imprisonment, soon afterwards contrived his escape; going to Paris, G, later held the post of Swed. amba ador. His most celebrated tise on jurisprudence, and Annales et work.