Anacharsis Cloots

Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (24 June 1755 – 24 March 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), 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 a world federalist and an internationalist anarchist. He was nicknamed "orator of mankind", "citizen of humanity" and "a personal enemy of God". American author Herman Melville refers to an "Anacharsis Clootz deputation" as a representation of global humanity in both ''Moby-Dick'' (1851), ''The Confidence-Man'', and later in ''Billy Budd''. Provided by Wikipedia