David Ancillon (17 March 1617 in Metz – 3 September 1692) was a French Huguenot pastor and author.[1]
At sixteen, he went to Geneva to study theology and, in 1641, was appointed minister of Meaux. In 1653, he accepted a post in his native Metz. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to move to Frankfort. He then moved to Hanau and then Berlin, where he died on 3 September 1692. He was the father of Charles Ancillon.
- ^ . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. II (9th ed.). 1878. p. 9.