Hugo Grotius (M / Netherlands, 1583-1645), scholar, playwright

Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot; 1583-1645) was a Dutch scholar, philosopher, jurist and playwright. A gifted child who at the age of eight could already master Latin, Grotius studied Latin at the University of Leyden with Joseph Scaliger, and then Law at Orleans. He pursued a successful (and quite adventurous) career as attorney general of Holland and then Sweden's ambassador at Paris. Grotius' main contribution to Western culture was in the area of international law, but he was also very deeply interested in religion. He wrote two religious dramas, Adam exul, and Christus patiens. His major theological accomplishment was De veritate religionis christianae (1627), an apologetic work in which he argued for the superiority of the Christian religion. The work already offered some critical insights to the composition of the New Testament documents, which were then fully developed in his Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (1641-1650).

Works

Books

• Annotationes in Novum Testamentum (1641-1650 Grotius), book

Plays

• Christus patient (Christ's Passion / 1608 Grotius), play

References

• William Baird, in History of New Testament Research: 1. From Deism to Tübingen (1992 Baird), book / pp. 7-11

External links

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