Anthony Ascham

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Anthony Ascham (* around 1614 or 1617 / 1618 in Boston , Lincolnshire , † 27. May 1650 in Madrid ) was an English nobleman, parliamentarians and diplomat during the time of the English Civil War on the side of Parliament . With his writings he defended and established the form of the republic, unknown to England .

As a graduate of Eton , Ascham was enrolled in Cambridge in 1634 at the age of 16 , graduating from BA in 1638 and MA in 1642. He was a fellow from 1637 until his death . In 1646 he was appointed tutor of James, Duke of York , later King James II of England . From 1649 to 1650 he was the English envoy to the Hanseatic cities in Hamburg and then envisaged as envoy to the Spanish court , where he was murdered by six English royalists the day after his arrival in Madrid. This murder and Spain's treatment of the assassins put a severe strain on the Commonwealth of England's relations with Spain.

His theoretical founding of the republic turned from the foundation of power on tradition and divine gift to one based on the well-being of the individual and the community - the Commonwealth . In his opinion it is the duty and right of every individual to do almost everything to secure their existence. His main work was A Discourse, wherein is examined what is particularly lawfull during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government (1648, expanded in the second edition from 1689).

On arrival in Madrid, he was murdered by English royalists who fled to a church asylum . For this reason, she was removed from the Spanish crown at the request of the British and sentenced to death in a sensational trial, but after the verdict she was released back to church asylum. This behavior conveyed by James Howell's 1651 translation of The Process and Pleadings in the Court of Spain upon the Death of Anthony Ascham by Augustin de Hierro led to tensions in the relationship between England and Spain.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marcus Llanque : Political history of ideas - a fabric of political discourses . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58471-4 , p. 218 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ascham, Anthony . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 1 : Abbas-Cutts . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1922, pp. 43 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ HWC Davis: Book review untitled on Horatio F. Brown: “Inglesi e Scozzesi all 'Università di Padova dall' anno 1618 sino al 1765” . In: The English Historical Review . tape 38 , 149 (January), 1923, pp. 134-136 .
  4. ^ A b Louis G. Kelly: Translators, chocolate and war . In: Livivs . tape 1 , 1992, p. 13-123 .
  5. ^ David Wootton : Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England . Hackett Publishing, Indianapolis 2003, ISBN 0-87220-653-X .
predecessor Office successor
Robert Anstruther (until 1645) English envoy to the Hanseatic cities
1649–1650 		Richard Bradshaw
personal data
SURNAME Ascham, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman, parliamentarian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1614 or 1617 or 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Lincolnshire
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1650
Place of death Madrid