Anacharsis cloots biography of albert

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