Antoine Achard
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Antoine Achard was a Swiss Protestant minister born in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

. He settled in Berlin
Berlin
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 in 1724 where he received the title of privy counsellor and was admitted into the Royal Academy of Berlin in 1743. He died in 1772.

After his death two volumes of his sermons were prepared, and they were published in 1774.
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