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Charles Ancillon ( July 28, 1659 - July 5, 1715), one of a distinguished family of Huguenots, was born at Metz, Moselle, France. His father, David Ancillon ( 1617- 1692), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin, Germany.Charles Ancillon studied law at Marburg, Geneva, and ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to, where he was called to the bar. At the request of the HuguenotIn the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. Origin of the Name Originally a term of derision, the origin remains uncertain. It may have derived from the personal name of Besans at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin. He was at once appointed by the elector Frederick "juge et directeur de colonie de Berlin." Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.
In 1687Events March 19 The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. July 5 Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published. December 31 The first Huguenots set sail he was appointed head of the so-called Academie des nobles, the principal educational establishment of the state; later on, as councillor of embassy, he took part in the negotiations which led to the assumption of the title of king by the elector. In 1699Events January 26 Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. May 1 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville founds the first European settlement in the Mississippi River Valley Births February 17 Georg Wenzeslaus v he succeeded PufendorfSamuel Pufendorf ( January 8, 1632 October 26, 1694), was a German jurist. He was born at Dorfchemnitz Stollberg District, in the ore mountains (Erzgebirge) in the Duchy of Saxony. His father Elias Pufendorf from Glauchau was a Lutheran pastor, and he him as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in BrandenburgSurrounding but excluding the national capital Berlin, Brandenburg is one of Germany's sixteen Bundeslander (federal states). Lying in the east of the country, it is one of the new states created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany a.
Ancillon's is mainly remembered for what he did for education in Prussia, and the share he took, in co-operation with Leibniz, in founding the Academy of Berlin . Of his fairly numerous works the one of most value is the "Histoire de l'etablissement des Francais refugies dans les etats de Brandebourg" published in Berlin in 1690.
Ancillon, Charles
Ancillon, Charles
