Ezekiel Spanheim, Freiherr von ( 1629 - 1710 )

Birth: Geneva, Switzerland (07 December 1629) Death: London (25 October 1710) Education: Leyden; Cambridge; DD (1689); Oxford; DCL (1706) Career: Professor of Rhetoric at Geneva (1651); Member of the City Council (1652); Tutor to the children of Karl Ludwig, Elector Palatine, at Heidelberg (1656); undertook various diplomatic missions (from 1661); travelled to Italy (1664); Envoy of the Palatinate to Charles II (1674, 1678); Privy Councillor to the Elector of Brandenburg (1680); Prussian Envoy to France; returned to Berlin when relations were broken off between Prussia and France (1689); Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Prussia to England (1702) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/02/1679 Proposers: Theodor Haak.