Charles Ancillon

Charles Ancillon (* July 28, 1659 in Metz, Moselle Dépt; . † July 5, 1715 in Berlin) was a Franco- German jurist and diplomat.

Life

Charles Ancillon studied at the universities of Marburg, Geneva and Paris and settled thereafter in 1685 down as Parliament Bar in his native city. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes on October 18, 1685 by the French king Luwdwig XIV succeeded his father, David Ancillon, to Berlin. His father worked there until his death in 1692 as a minister of the French Reformed Church. The Elector of Brandenburg, Frederick William summoned to court Ancillon Chairman of the French colony in 1691 and minister to Switzerland and from Margrave Karl III. Appointed Wilhelm of Baden- Durlach.

In 1699 Ancillon returned to Berlin and was historiographer of King Frederick I. and helped found ( before 1689) and management of the French school ( Collège Francais ) with. Then acted as Ancillon police director of the Prussian capital, where he died in that office three weeks before his 56th birthday.

Works

• Histoire de l' établissement des Français dans les états de l' réfugiés Electeur de Brandenburg. Berlin 1690th History of establishment of the Réfugiés in the States of His Electoral Highness of Brandenburg. Berlin, 1939, 80 pp.