<Ul> <Li> Gustav II Adolf, Milton, Selden, Hobbes, Cumberland, Pufendorf, Locke, Rousseau, Vico, Bynkershoek, Barbeyrac </Li> </Ul> <Li> Gustav II Adolf, Milton, Selden, Hobbes, Cumberland, Pufendorf, Locke, Rousseau, Vico, Bynkershoek, Barbeyrac </Li> <P> Hugo Grotius (/ ˈɡroʊʃiəs /; 10 April 1583--28 August 1645), also known as Huig de Groot (Dutch: (ˈɦœyɣ də ɣroːt)) or Hugo de Groot (Dutch: (ˈɦyɣoː də ɣroːt)), was a Dutch jurist . Along with the earlier works of Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili, Grotius laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law . A teenage intellectual prodigy, he was imprisoned for his involvement in the intra-Calvinist disputes of the Dutch Republic, but escaped hidden in a chest of books . He wrote most of his major works in exile in France . </P> <P> It is thought that Hugo Grotius was not the first to formulate the international society doctrine, but he was one of the first to define expressly the idea of one society of states, governed not by force or warfare but by actual laws and mutual agreement to enforce those laws . As Hedley Bull declared in 1990: "The idea of international society which Grotius propounded was given concrete expression in the Peace of Westphalia, and Grotius may be considered the intellectual father of this first general peace settlement of modern times ." </P>

Who is called the father of international law