Alberico Gentili lived from 1552 to 1608 and was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for twenty-one years. He is regarded as the co-founder of the field of international law and is known as the Father of International Law. The first medieval writer on public international law, he became in 1587 the first non-Englishman to hold a Regius Professorship, and he authored numerous books recognized among the most essential sources for international legal doctrine, alongside theological and literary material.
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RoleRegius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford (1587-1608); tutor to Queen Elizabeth I; founding jurist of international law. 1 Nationality / JurisdictionItaly; Roman civil law and the law of nations, founding figure of international law. 1 BirthplaceSan Ginesio, Macerata, Italy 1 Place of Death Classification
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How is Alberico Gentili connected to Hugo Grotius?
Grotius drew extensively on Gentili's work when writing On the Law of War and Peace in 1625.
Hugo Grotius is the better-known name in the early law of nations, and Britannica records that he drew on Gentili. The Dutch jurist Grotius, in writing his much better-known De jure belli ac pacis of 1625, On the Law of War and Peace, drew extensively on Gentili's work. Gentili's own writing on war therefore stands behind the more famous treatise.
Why did Alberico Gentili leave Italy and how did he come to teach at Oxford?
He was exiled from Italy in 1579 for his Protestantism and taught at Oxford from 1581.
Gentili trained as a lawyer in Italy, graduating from the University of Perugia as a doctor of civil law in 1572. He was exiled from Italy in 1579 because of his Protestantism. From 1581 until his death he taught at the University of Oxford, and in 1587 he became Regius Professor of Civil Law there.
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Alberico Gentili (14 January 1552 - 19 June 1608) was an Italian jurist, a tutor of Queen Elizabeth I, and a standing advocate to the Spanish Embassy in London, who served as the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford for 21 years.
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Gentili was born into a noble family in the town of San Ginesio, Macerata, Italy.
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Gentili died in London and was buried in the Church of St Helen Bishopsgate in the City of London.
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