Achilles, Alexander
, a nobleman of Prussia, lived
at the court of Uladislaus, king of Poland, and died at
Stockholm in 1675, in the ninety-first year of his age.
The king of Poland sent him as ambassador to Persia, and
the elector of Brandenburgh employed him on a similar
mission to the Cossacks. He wrote, in German, a treatise on Earthquakes, and left some manuscripts political
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