ANCILLON, CHARLES (1659-1715), one of a distin guished family of French Protestants, was born on July 28 1659, at Metz. His father, David Ancillon (1617-1692), was obliged to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and became pastor of the French Protestant community in Berlin. Charles Ancillon studied law at Marburg, Geneva and Paris, where he was called to the bar. In 1699 he succeeded Pufendorf as histori ographer to the elector, and the same year replaced his uncle Joseph Ancillon as judge of all the French refugees in Branden burg. He died on July 5 1715. Ancillon's chief claim to remem brance is the work that he did for education in Prussia, and the share he took, in co-operation with Leibnitz, in founding the Academy of Berlin. Of his works the only one still of value is the Histoire de l'etablissement des Francais re f ugies dans les etats de Brandebourg (16go).