Louis Frédéric Ancillon
Louis Frédéric Ancillon , also Ludwig Friedrich Ancillon (born May 21, 1740 in Berlin ; † June 13, 1814 there ) was a Prussian French Reformed theologian.
family
Ancillon came from an important family of the Prussian Huguenots . His father Frédéric Luc Ancillon (1698–1758) was a Reformed theologian, his mother Judith Naudé (1705–1780) a daughter of the mathematics professor Philipp Naudé , his grandfather Charles Ancillon a Prussian lawyer and diplomat, his great-grandfather David Ancillon the elder preacher of the Huguenot community in Berlin as well as Prussian court preacher . From his marriage in 1767 with Marie Mathis (1743–1817), daughter of the spice dealer Daniel Mathis, a. a. the Prussian minister Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon emerged.
life and work
In 1761 Ancillon became a catechist in the French Reformed congregation in Berlin and in 1765 a preacher at the Friedrichswerder Church, also known as the monastery church . In 1796 he joined the Prussian consistory and became a secret councilor in the consistoire supérieur des communautés réformées françaises .
In 1780 he gave the funeral speech for Princess Luise Amalie of Prussia , in 1786 for King Friedrich II , and in 1797 for his widow Elisabeth Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern . Other sermons from him were also printed.
In addition to his official duties, Ancillon mainly dealt with philosophical questions. For his treatise Quels sont outre l'inspiration les caractères qui assurent aux livres saints la supériorité sur les livres profanes , he received the award of the Academy of Rouen in 1782. In 1786 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences , where he primarily dealt with Enlightenment skepticism in publications. His fictional dialogue between George Berkeley and David Hume received particular attention .
literature
- Richard Fouquet: Ancillon, Louis Frédéric. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 265 ( digitized version ).
- Adolf Brecher : Ancillon, Louis Frédéric . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 427.
- S. Charles, JC Laursen et al. a .: Hume and Berkeley in the Prussian Academy. Louis Frédéric Ancillon's “Dialogue between Berkeley and Hume” of 1796. In: Hume-Studies 27 (2001), pp. 85-97 ( PDF file ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on May 27, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ancillon, Louis Frédéric |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ancillon, Ludwig Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian French Reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1814 |
| Place of death | Berlin |