Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany

Friedrich Wilhelm Ghillany (18 April 1807 in Erlangen – 26 June 1876) was a German Lutheran theologian, historian, librarian and publicist.

His rationalist outlook, influenced by Georg Friedrich Daumer, forced him to retire from his post as vicar at St. Aegidius parish in Nuremberg. He became city librarian in Nuremberg in 1841. His early publications are pamphlets against Lutheran bigotry, specifically agitating against the Old Lutheran president of the Lutheran assembly in Munich, Friedrich von Roth. In 1855, Ghillany moved to Munich, but he did not succeed in finding employment as a civil servant or diplomat, and he went on to publish multi-volume works on European history. He also continued to publish on religious topics, but now under a pseudonym.