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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Delft in 1583, Hugo Grotius was a teenage prodigy who studied at Leiden and moved through roles as diplomat, jurist, theologian, and poet. His involvement in Dutch religious controversies landed him in Loevestein Castle; he broke out concealed in a chest of books meant for his study and fled to France. There, in exile, he produced his major works: De jure belli ac pacis and Mare Liberum, treatises that laid the foundations for international law by defining a society of states governed not by force but by mutual agreement and actual laws. Grotius also shifted the concept of rights from objects to persons, reframing them as expressions of human capacity. His theological work fed Arminian movements and his ideas on free trade earned him the label "economic theologist." After the First World War, his influence, which had faded, came roaring back.