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Ancillon was born in Berlin, and was the great-grandson of French jurist and diplomat Charles Ancillon.
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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.
In 1687 Ancillon 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 in Prussia " by the elector.
Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon ( 30 April 1767 – 19 April 1837 ) was a Prussian historian and statesman.
In October 1814, when his pupil came of age, Ancillon was included by Prince Hardenberg in the ministry, as privy councillor of legation in the department of foreign affairs, with a view to utilizing his supposed gifts as a philosophical historian in the preparation of the projected Prussian constitution.
By the German public, to whom Ancillon was known only through his earlier writings and some isolated protests against the " demagogue-hunting " in fashion at Berlin, his advent to power was hailed as a triumph of liberalism.
Ancillon had convinced himself that the rigid class distinctions of the Prussian system were the philosophically ideal basis of the state, and that representation " by estates " was the only sound constitutional principle ; his last and indeed only act of importance as minister was his collaboration with Metternich in the Vienna Final Act of 12 June 1834, the object of which was to rivet this system upon Germany forever.
He was by training and temperament against the Revolution, and he was initiated into his new duties as a Prussian minister by the reactionary Ancillon.
His father was an official, his mother distantly related to the Prussian minister Friedrich Ancillon.
Ancillon and Berlin
Ancillon is mainly remembered for what he did for education in Brandenburg-Prussia, and the share he took, in co-operation with Gottfried Leibniz, in founding the Academy of Berlin.
Ancillon took rank among the most famous historians of his day by his next work, Tableau des révolutions du système politique de l ' Europe depuis le XV < sup > e </ sup > siècle ( 1803, 4 volumes ), which gained him the praise of the Institute of France, and admission to the Military Academy of Berlin.
Ancillon and French
In 1699 he succeeded Samuel Pufendorf as historiographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
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Its " sugary optimism, unctuous phraseology and pulpit logic " appealed, however, to the reviving pietism of the age succeeding the Revolution, and these qualities, as well as his eloquence as a preacher, brought Ancillon to the notice of the court.
In 1817 Ancillon became a councillor of state, and in 1818 director of the political section of the ministry for foreign affairs under Count Bernstorff.
In his chief's most important work, the establishment of the Prussian Zollverein, Ancillon had no share, while the entirely subordinate role played by Prussia in Europe during this period, together with the personal part taken by the sovereign in the various congresses, gave him little scope for the display of any diplomatic talents he may have possessed.
In the spring of 1832 the state of his health compelled him to resign the ministry of foreign affairs to Ancillon, who had already acted as his deputy for a year.
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