Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim

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Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim (also Ézéchiel, and known as Baron Spanheim) (7/18 December 1629 – 14/25 November 1710)

diplomat and scholar.

Life

He was born at

, and in 1650 returned to Geneva to be Professor of Rhetoric at Geneva.

In 1656 Spanheim became tutor to the son of

In 1680 he entered the service of electoral Brandenburg as minister of state. As ambassador of the

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

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

(Leipzig, 1696).

References

• http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc11/Page_35.html

Notes

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the

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External links

• (in German) http://www.bautz.de/bbkl//s/spanheim_e.shtml.shtml