Friedrich Ancillon

Friedrich Ancillon
Foreign minister of Prussia
In office
10 May 1832 – 19 April 1837
MonarchFrederick William III
Preceded byChristian Günther von Bernstorff
Succeeded byHeinrich Wilhelm von Werther
Personal details
Born(1767-04-30)30 April 1767
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died19 April 1837(1837-04-19) (aged 69)
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia

Johann Peter Friedrich Ancillon (30 April 1767 – 19 April 1837) was a Prussian historian and statesman. He provided Frederick William III of Prussia with strong ideological support against political reforms that might restrain monarchical power.[1]

He was appointed extraordinary member of the Philosophy Class at the Prussian Academy in 1803. He tutored the Crown Price who became Frederick William IV of Prussia. 1813 till 1837 Ancillon worked as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Prussia, and he tended to support Klemens von Metternich.[2]

  1. ^ Clark, Christopher (2006). Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947. Belknap Press. p. 402. ISBN 9780674023857.
  2. ^ Heiner F. Klemme; Manfred Kuehn, eds. (2016). The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 18. ISBN 9781474256001.

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