About Seraphim de Freitas
Lived 1570 – 1633 (aged 62–63). Seraphim de Freitas was a Portuguese jurist.
Franciscus Serafim de Freitas (also Seraphim or Seraphinus; 8 March 1633) was a Portuguese jurist and canon lawyer.
Franciscus Serafim de Freitas was born in Lisbon about 1570. He attended the Jesuit school Colégio de Santo Antão in Lisbon and the University of Coimbra, where he received a doctorate in canon law on 25 October 1595 or 1598. The book rejects the theories of Hugo Grotius presented in Mare Liberum. A French translation of De iusto by Alfred Guichon de Grandpont was published in 1882.
De Freitas died in Madrid on 8 March 1633.
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Portuguese jurist and canon lawyer (died 1633)
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Seraphim de Freitas was born in 1570 in Lisbon.
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Seraphim de Freitas died in 1633 in Madrid.
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Seraphim de Freitas was Portuguese.
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