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Hugo Grotius, Patriarch of International Law
21 March 2022
He is best known as "the man who escaped from prison in a chest of books". But thanks to biographer Henk Nellen, we know that the seventeenth-century man Hugo de Groot or Grotius was more than that: he was also an internationally important legal scholar, a policymaker of the Republic and a transitio
New Biography Sketches Portrait of ‘Maverick’ Erasmus as a Tragic Optimist
3 December 2021
The Erasmus that Sandra Langereis sketches in her biography feels pleasantly familiar: a man with great ambition, who took full advantage of the technical innovations of his time, and who took orders from no one. But his success also had its drawbacks.