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Hugo Grotius figured it out in 1609

Maria van Reigersberch helps her husband Hugo Grotius prepare his escape from Loevestein Castle, 1621. (Rijksmuseum.)

At the age of 15, Hugo Grotius so impressed Henry IV, king of France, with his intelligence that the monarch declared him “the miracle of Holland.”

At 17, the budding Dutch legal scholar argued his first case. Soon he would be named Attor…