The Grotiana Foundation (Stichting Grotiana) is an academic foundation whose activities are devoted to fostering the study of the life, works and legacies of the Dutch polymath Hugo Grotius (1583-1645). The Foundation was formed in 1979 from the merger of three pre-existing Dutch Grotius societies: the Foundation for the Editions of the Works of Grotius, founded in 1917 by Cornelius Van Vollenhoven; the Foundation for the Furtherance of the Research into the Life and Works of Hugo Grotius, founded in 1949 by Jacob Ter Meulen; and the Grotius Seminary, founded in 1954 by Bart Landheer.