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6 - Hugo Grotius

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2021

By
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Edited by
Wim Decock  and
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Wim Decock
Affiliation:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Janwillem Oosterhuis
Affiliation:
Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands
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Summary

Hugo de Groot (alias Hugo Grotius, 1583–1645) lived his entire life during the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648) against Spain. This revolt was importantly about maintaining local privileges and autonomy against the Habsburg centralization politics but also about the profession of the new Reformed religion in the Low Countries. Particularly in Grotius’s native Holland, the Reformed religion traditionally had included ‘strict’ (‘precise’, precieze, later also called Calvinist) and ‘moderate’ (‘pliable’, rekkelijke, later also called Arminian) denominations. The consolidation of the Dutch Republic as an independent power and the simultaneous controversies between the various Reformed denominations that were tearing his native Holland apart would crucially shape Grotius’s life and work.

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Great Christian Jurists in the Low Countries , pp. 97 - 122
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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