Ancillon, JOHN FREDERICK, a member of a French family which, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, migrated into Prussia, was born in Berlin, in 1767. Originally pastor of the French refugees, he was in 1792 appointed professor of History in the Military Academy of Berlin, and afterwards tutor to the crown-prince, having become known by his Révolutions du Système Politique de l'Europe (4 vols. 1803-5). In 1832 he became foreign minister, and died 19th April 1837.
Ancillon, JOHN FREDERICK
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 259
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