This is where Grotius’ studies at Leiden University officially started, his matriculation on 3 August 1594. Grotius’ name - in Dutch, Hugo de Groot - is halfway down the page of the matriculation register. Grotius did not sign the register himself – his name was probably written down by Cornelis de Groot, Grotius’ uncle and the university’s Chancellor at the time. Grotius’ first year would have focused on the liberal arts, with courses ranging from rhetoric to history to physics. In the second year, students picked a major and Grotius seems to have chosen Law, which included taking courses on Roman law with Gerardus Tuningius.
Volumen inscriptionum 1575-1618 (p. 73), manuscript [ASF 7]