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Simon van Groenewegen van der Made (1613,
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– 5 July 1652, Delft)Molhuysen
Groenewegen van der Made, (Simon)
in the Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek
was a Dutch jurist. Born in Delft, he studied law in
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, practiced as an advocate in
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and was since about 1645 city clerk of Delft. He gained renown as a commentator of
Grotius Hugo Grotius ( ; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot () or Huig de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft an ...
and for his ''Tractatus de legibus abrogatis et inusitatis in Hollandia vicinisque regionibus'', a ''censura'' that indicated which parts of Roman law still applied in Holland. It remains the leading work on Roman law in the Netherlands.


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* 1613 births 1652 deaths 17th-century Dutch jurists Leiden University alumni People from Delft {{Netherlands-law-bio-stub