Editing Hugo Grotius (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Hugo Grotius00.jpg|thumb|upright|Grotius at age 16, by [[Jan Antonisz. van Ravesteyn]], 1599]]

Born in [[Delft]] during the [[Eighty Years' War|Dutch Revolt]], Grotius was the first child of [[Jan Cornets De Groot|Jan Cornets de Groot]] and Alida van Overschie. His father was a man of learning, once having studied with the eminent [[Justus Lipsius]] at [[Leiden University]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Nellen|first=Henk J. M.|title=Hugo Grotius: A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583 – 1645|publisher=BRILL|year=2014|isbn=978-90-04-27436-5|location=Leiden|pages=22}}</ref> as well as of political distinction. His family was considered Delft [[Patrician (post-Roman Europe)|patrician]] as his ancestors played an important role in local government since the 13th century.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Blom|first=Hans W.|title=Property, Piracy and Punishment: Hugo Grotius on War and Booty in De iure praedae: Concepts and Contexts|publisher=BRILL|year=2009|isbn=978-90-04-17513-6|location=Leiden|pages=249}}</ref>

Jan de Groot was also the translator of [[Archimedes]] and a friend of [[Ludolph van Ceulen]]. He groomed his son from an early age in a traditional [[Humanism|humanist]] and [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian]] education.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Brunstetter|first1=Daniel R.|title=Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century|last2=O’Driscoll|first2=Cian|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=978-1-317-30711-2|location=Oxon|language=en}}</ref> A [[child prodigy|prodigious]] learner, Grotius entered [[Leiden University]] when he was just eleven years old.<ref name=":0" /> There he studied with some of the most acclaimed intellectuals in northern Europe, including [[Franciscus Junius (the elder)|Franciscus Junius]], [[Joseph Justus Scaliger]], and [[Rudolph Snellius]].{{sfn|Vreeland|1917|loc=chap 1}} At age 16 (1599), he published his first book: a scholarly edition of the [[late antiquity|late antique]] author [[Martianus Capella]]'s work on the [[seven liberal arts]], ''Martiani Minei Felicis Capellæ Carthaginiensis viri proconsularis Satyricon.'' It remained a reference for several centuries.{{sfn|Stahl|1965}}

In 1598, at the age of 15 years, he accompanied [[Johan van Oldenbarnevelt]] to a diplomatic mission in Paris. On this occasion, the King [[Henry IV of France|Henri IV of France]] would have presented Grotius to his court as "the miracle of [[Holland]]".{{sfn|von Siebold|1847}} During his stay in France, he passed or bought a law degree from the University of Orleans.{{sfn|Miller|2014|p=2}} In Holland, Grotius earned an appointment as advocate to [[The Hague]] in 1599<ref>{{Cite book|last=Korab-Karpowicz|first=W. Julian|title=A History of Political Philosophy: From Thucydides to Locke|publisher=Global Scholarly Publications|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59267-113-7|location=New York, NY|pages=223}}</ref> and then as official [[historiographer]] for the States of Holland in 1601. It was on this date that the States of Holland requested from Grotius an account of the United Provinces’ revolt against Spain;<ref name="britannica_Hugo-Grotius"/> Grotius is indeed contemporary with the [[Eighty Years' War]] between [[Spain]] and the [[Netherlands]].{{sfn|Miller|2014|p=2}} The resulting work, entitled ''Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis,'' describing the period from 1559 to 1609, was written in the style of the Roman historian [[Tacitus]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Grotius {{!}} Dutch statesman and scholar {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugo-Grotius |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} and: J. Waszink, ‘Tacitism in Holland: Hugo Grotius' ''Annales et Historiae de rebus Belgicis''’ in Rhoda Schnur (ed.), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies (Bonn 2003). Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies vol. 315, 2006</ref> and was first finished in 1612. The States, however, did not publish it, possibly because of the way the work resonated with the politico-religious tensions within the Dutch Republic (see below).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grotius and Waszink |editor-first1=Jan |editor-last1=Waszink |url=https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461664853 |title=Annals of the War in the Low Countries, ed. with an introduction by J. Waszink |publisher=Leuven UP |year=2023 |isbn=978-94-6270-351-3 |series=Bibliotheca Latinitatis Novae |location=Leuven (BE)|doi=10.11116/9789461664853 |s2cid=251530133 }}</ref>

His first occasion to write systematically on issues of international justice came in 1604 when he became involved in the legal proceedings following the seizure by Dutch merchants of a Portuguese [[carrack]] and its cargo in the [[Singapore Strait]].{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} Throughout his life Grotius wrote a variety of philological, theological and politico-theological works.

In 1608, he married [[Maria van Reigersberch]]; they had three daughters and four sons.{{sfn|Miller|2014|p=2}}