Anacharsis Cloots, Prussian-French activist (died 1794)

Anacharsis Cloots

Prussian nobleman (1755–1794)

Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots, better known as Anacharsis Cloots, was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution. Perhaps the first to advocate a world parliament, an idea later espoused by Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, he was…