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Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim

Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim (also Ézéchiel, and known as Baron Spanheim) (7/18 December 1629 – 14/25 November 1710)[1] was a Genevan diplomat and scholar.

Ezechiel Spanheim, 1702 engraving by Robert White.

Life edit

He was born at Geneva, the eldest son of Friedrich Spanheim the Elder. After 1642 he studied philology and theology at the University of Leyden, and in 1650 returned to Geneva to be Professor of Rhetoric at Geneva.

In 1656 Spanheim became tutor to the son of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Political theory led him into a diplomatic career. The Elector sent him in 1661 to Rome to investigate intrigues of the Roman Catholic Electors. After his return in 1665 the Elector employed him as ambassador at various courts, finally in England where after 1679 he was charged also with the affairs of the Elector of Brandenburg. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679.[2]

In 1680 he entered the service of electoral Brandenburg as minister of state. As ambassador of the Great Elector he spent nine years at the court of Paris, and subsequently devoted some years to studies in Berlin; but after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697 he returned as ambassador to France where he remained until 1702.

In 1702, he went on his final diplomatic mission, as the first Prussian ambassador to England. He died in London in 1710 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.[3]

Works edit

 
Fig. 1. Illustration of critique of Dissertationes de praestantia... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1707

His major works are Disputationes de usu et præstantia numismatum antiquorum (Rome, 1664; in 2 vols., London and Amsterdam, 1706–17) and Orbis Romanus (London, 1704; Halle, 1738), which Edward Gibbon used as a source for his monumental The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He also edited with Petavius the Opera of Cyril of Alexandria and of the Emperor Julian (Leipzig, 1696).

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Spanheim, Ezechiel, in Deutsche Biographie.
  2. ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-03-01.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Ezekiel Spanheim".
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Elector Palatine Political theory led him into a diplomatic career The Elector sent him in 1661 to Rome to investigate intrigues of the Roman Catholic Electors After his return in 1665 the Elector employed him as ambassador at various courts finally in England where after 1679 he was charged also with the affairs of the Elector of Brandenburg He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679 2 In 1680 he entered the service of electoral Brandenburg as minister of state As ambassador of the Great Elector he spent nine years at the court of Paris and subsequently devoted some years to studies in Berlin but after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697 he returned as ambassador to France where he remained until 1702 In 1702 he went on his final diplomatic mission as the first Prussian ambassador to England He died in London in 1710 and was buried in Westminster Abbey 3 Works edit nbsp Fig 1 Illustration of critique of Dissertationes de praestantia published in Acta Eruditorum 1707His major works are Disputationes de usu et praestantia numismatum antiquorum Rome 1664 in 2 vols London and Amsterdam 1706 17 and Orbis Romanus London 1704 Halle 1738 which Edward Gibbon used as a source for his monumental The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He also edited with Petavius the Opera of Cyril of Alexandria and of the Emperor Julian Leipzig 1696 References edithttp www ccel org ccel schaff encyc11 Page 35 htmlNotes edit Spanheim Ezechiel in Deutsche Biographie Library and Archive catalogue Royal Society Retrieved 2012 03 01 permanent dead link Ezekiel Spanheim Attribution nbsp This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Jackson Samuel Macauley ed 1914 New Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge third ed London and New York Funk and Wagnalls a href Template Cite encyclopedia html title Template Cite encyclopedia cite encyclopedia a Missing or empty title help External links edit in German http www bautz de bbkl s spanheim e shtml shtml 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