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CHARLES ANCILLON (1659-1715)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ANCILLON (1659-1715)  , one of a distinguished See also:family of See also:French Protestants, was See also:born on the 28th of See also:July 16J9, at See also:Metz . His See also:father, See also:David See also:Ancillon (1617-1692), was obliged to leave See also:France on the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes, and became pastor of the French See also:Protestant community in See also:Berlin . See also:Charles Ancillon studied See also:law at See also:Marburg, See also:Geneva, and See also:Paris, where he was called to the See also:bar . At the See also:request of the See also:Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the See also:court of See also: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 See also:Frederick " See also:juge et directeur de colonic de Berlin." He had before this published several See also:works on the revocation of the edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his See also:literary capacity was mediocre, his See also:style stiff and See also:cold, and it was his See also:personal See also:character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector . In 1687 he was appointed See also:head of the so-called Academie See also:des nobles, the See also:principal educational See also:establishment of the See also:state; later on, as councillor of See also:embassy, he took See also:part in the negotiations which led to the See also:assumption of the See also:title of See also:king by the elector . In 1699 he succeeded See also:Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same See also:year replaced his See also:uncle See also:Joseph Ancillon as See also:judge of all the French refugees in See also:Brandenburg . He died on the 5th of July 1715 . Ancillon's See also:chief claim to remembrance is the See also:work that he did for See also:education in See also:Prussia, and the See also:share he took, in co-operation with See also:Leibnitz, in See also:founding the See also:Academy of Berlin . Of his fairly numerous works the only one still of value is the Histoire de l'etablissement des See also:Francais refugees dons See also:les Rats de Brandebourg (Berlin, 1690) .

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