. . . . "Hugo Grotius (/\u02C8\u0261ro\u028A\u0283i\u0259s/; 10 April 1583 \u2013 28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot (Dutch: [\u02C8\u0266\u0153y\u0263 d\u0259 \u0263ro\u02D0t]) or Hugo de Groot (Dutch: [\u02C8\u0266y\u0263o\u02D0 d\u0259 \u0263ro\u02D0t]), was a Dutch jurist. Along with Alberico Gentili and Francisco de Vitoria, he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law. A teenage intellectual prodigy, for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic, he was imprisoned and then escaped hidden appropriately in a chest of books."@en . . "1583Z"^^ . . . "Hugo Grotius"@en . . . . . . . "1645-08-28Z"^^ . . "1583-04-10Z"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1645Z"^^ . . . . .