Anacharsis cloots biography of albert
There is no space here for an exhaustive biography of Anacharsis Cloots, andthis is not the subject of this study either.
Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, an idea later espoused by Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, he was a world federalist and an internationalist.!
Anacharsis Cloots
Prussian nobleman (–)
Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baronde Cloots (24 June – 24 March ), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution.[1][2][3] Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, an idea later espoused by Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, he was a world federalist and an internationalist anarchist.
He was nicknamed "orator of mankind", "citizen of humanity" and "a personal enemy of God".[4] American author Herman Melville refers to an "Anacharsis Clootz delegation" as a representation of global humanity in both Moby-Dick (), The Confidence-Man, and later in Billy Budd.[6]
Biography
Early life
Born near Kleve, at the castle of Gnadenthal[de], he belonged to a noble Prussian family of Dutch Protestant origin.[7] The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent to