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| | EZECHIEL SPANHEIM, PROFESSOR OF ELOQUENCE |
 | | A web page on Louis XIV suggests as "additional reading" "Ezechiel Spanheim, Relation de la cour de France en 1690 (1704; Account of the Court of France, 1900)." He seems to have been born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 18th (or 7th?) December 1629 and died in London on 7th December 1710. |
 | | U Mass Book Project Scott Miller writes: "Ezekiel Spanheim is listed as follows in "A New Biographical Dictionary" by James Ferguson, 1810: SPANHEIM (Ezekiel), a learned writer and statesman, was the eldest son of the preceding, and born in 1629 in Geneva, where he was appointed professor of eloquence at the age of 20. |
 | | The entire entry was copied into Appletons' Cyclopaedia of Biography, American edition edited by Francis L. Hawks, D.D., LL.D., 1856, which was based on the "Cyclopedia of Biography" edited by Rich." Ferdinando Bassoli, of Torino, Italy writes: "Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710) was in fact a numismatist, a diplomat and ambassador to France and England. |
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