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Seyler is a surname, and may refer to: *Seyler family, a Swiss-German family of artists and bankers, including ** Abel Seyler (1730–1801), Swiss theatre director ** Friederike Sophie Seyler (1737/38–1789), German actress and librettist ** Ludwig Edwin Seyler (1758–1836), German banker ** Seyler theatrical company ** Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty * Athene Seyler (1889–1990), English actress * Harry E. Seyler (1908–1994), American politician and educator * Tomas Seyler (born 1974), German darts player See also * Hoppe-Seyler * Seiler * Sailer (other) Sailer may refer to: * Sailer (surname) * Sailer butterflies: the butterfly genera ''Neptis'' (typical sailers) and ''Pseudoneptis'' (blue sailers) See also * Seiler Seiler (German for "roper") is a surname. Notable people with the surname in ... {{surname, Seyler German-language surnames ...
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Seyler Family
The Seyler family (also spelled Seiler) is a Swiss family, originally a patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician family from Liestal near Basel. Family members served as councillors and Schultheißen of Liestal from the 15th century, later also as members of the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt, Grand Council of Basel. A Hamburg branch descended from the banker and renowned theatre director Abel Seyler became by marriage a part of the Berenberg family, Berenberg banking dynasty, co-owners of Berenberg Bank and part of Hamburg's ruling class of Hanseaten (class), Hanseaten. History Among the earliest known family members are Johannes Seyler, who was a councillor in Liestal in 1445, and Martin Seyler, a Schultheiß (mayor) of Liestal in 1477. Balthasar Seyler (died 1460) was a canon and dean of the Stift of St. Peter.Seyler
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Abel Seyler
Abel Seyler (23 August 1730, Liestal – 25 April 1800, Rellingen) was a Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one of the great theatre principals of 18th century Europe. He played a pivotal role in the development of German theatre and opera, and was considered "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime.Wilhelm Kosch, "Seyler, Abel", in '' Dictionary of German Biography'', eds. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, Vol. 9, Walter de Gruyter, 2005, , p. 308 He supported the development of new works and experimental productions, helping to establish Hamburg as a center of theatrical innovation and to establish a publicly funded theater system in Germany. Working with some of Germany's foremost actors and playwrights of his era, he is credited with pioneering a new more realist style of acting, introducing Shakespeare to a German language audience, and with promoting the concept of a national theatre in the tradition of Ludvig Holber ...
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Friederike Sophie Seyler
Friederike Sophie Seyler (1738, Dresden – 22 November 1789, Schleswig; née Sparmann, formerly married Hensel) was a German actress, playwright and librettist. Alongside Friederike Caroline Neuber, she was widely considered Germany's greatest actress of the 18th century; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing described her in his ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' as "incontestably one of the best actresses that German theatre has ever seen."''Hamburgische Dramaturgie'', Viertes Stück. In: Lessings Werke', published by Georg Witkowski, Vol. 4, p. 355, 1766 The granddaughter of the architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, she ran away from an abusive uncle under the threat of a forced marriage to join the theatre at the age of sixteen in 1754. She established herself as one of Germany's leading actresses in the 1760s and was acclaimed for her portrayal of passionate, majestic, tragic heroines. From 1767 she was professionally and personally associated with the theatre director Abel Seyler, whom she mar ...
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Ludwig Edwin Seyler
Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (15 May 1758 – 26 October 1836; often known as ''L.E. Seyler'') was a Hamburg merchant, merchant banker and politician. He was by marriage a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg dynasty, and was a partner in the Hamburg firm Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. (now known as Berenberg Bank) for 48 years (1788–1836), for 46 years as the company's senior partner. The company name was amended in 1791 to reflect him becoming a partner and has remained unchanged since; he "is practically the 'Co.' in the company name." Seyler was one of the first merchants and bankers from modern Germany to establish trade relations with the United States and East Asia. Much of the company's wealth derived from their position as leading sugar importers from the Americas to the North European market, in combination with their activities as merchants bankers. Seyler was one of Hamburg's leading merchants during the Napoleonic Wars and held several political offices. He served as a member of ...
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Seyler Theatrical Company
The Seyler Theatre Company, also known as the Seyler Company (German: ''Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft'', sometimes ''Seylersche Truppe''), was a travelling theatrical company founded in 1769 by Abel Seyler. It was one of the most famous and ambitious theatrical companies of Europe in the years from 1769 to 1779, and played a crucial role in theatrical innovation, the development of a serious German opera tradition, and the Sturm und Drang movement. The Sturm und Drang period is named for a play commissioned by the Seyler company. History Abel Seyler was a Hamburg merchant and banker originally from Switzerland who became "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime. The Seyler Theatre Company was largely a continuation of the Hamburgische Entreprise, whose dramaturge was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and whose main owner was Seyler. The Seyler theatrical company became one of the most famous theatrical companies of Europe in the 18th century, attracting some of Germany's ...
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Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler Banking Dynasty
The Berenberg family (Dutch language, Dutch for "bear mountain") was a Flanders, Flemish-origined Hanseaten (class), Hanseatic family of merchants, bankers and senators in Hamburg, with branches in London, Livorno and other European cities. The family was descended from the brothers Hans and Paul Berenberg from Antwerp (province), Antwerp, who came as Protestant refugees to the Free imperial city, city-republic of Hamburg following the Fall of Antwerp in 1585 and who established what is now Berenberg Bank in Hamburg in 1590. The Berenbergs were originally cloth merchants and became involved in merchant banking in the 17th century. Having existed continuously since 1590, Berenberg Bank is the world's oldest surviving merchant bank. The Berenberg banking family became extinct in the male line with Elisabeth Berenberg (1749–1822); she was married to Johann Hinrich Gossler, who became a co-owner of the bank in 1769. From the late 18th century, the Gossler family, as owners of Bere ...
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Athene Seyler
Athene Seyler (31 May 188912 September 1990) was an English actress. Early life She was born in Hackney, London; her German-born grandparents moved to the United Kingdom, where her grandfather Philip Seyler was a merchant in London. Athene Seyler was educated at Coombe Hill School in Surrey, a progressive co-educational school which disliked petitionary prayer and whose advanced biology classes studied Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species''. Seyler took part in an anti-blood sports demonstration, during which pupils captured the fox from the local hunt. She was also active in the South Place Ethical Society during the 1920s, where her father Clarence H. Seyler took his family for many years to hear Moncure Conway lecture as an alternative to attending a religious Sunday service. Clarence ran a class for the study of Herbert Spencer, contributed to the South Place magazine on rationalist matters and wrote a treatise on birth control which he circulated privately among his f ...
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Harry E
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Tomas Seyler
Tomas Seyler (known as Shorty; 16 July 1974 – 11 July 2024) was a German professional darts player. Career Seyler reached the second round of the Winmau World Masters in 2003, beating Vincent van der Voort in the first round, but lost to Raymond van Barneveld. He also reached the Quarter-Finals of the World Darts Trophy in 2004, beating Bob Taylor and Tony West before losing to Martin Adams. He won the German Gold Cup in 2005. Seyler made his PDC debut at the 2006 PDC World Darts Championship, where he beat crowd favourite Jamie Harvey of Scotland in the first round but lost to the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...' Roland Scholten in round two. He returned to Purfleet for the 2007 PDC World Darts Championship but the German number one los ...
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Hoppe-Seyler
Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (''né'' Felix Hoppe; 26 December 1825 – 10 August 1895) was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry and molecular biology. He had discovered Yeast nucleic acid which is now called RNA in his attempts to follow up and confirm Miescher's results by repeating parts of Miescher's experiments. He took the name Hoppe-Seyler when he was adopted by his brother-in-law, a grandson of the famous theatre principal Abel Seyler. Biography Hoppe-Seyler was born in Freyburg an der Unstrut in the Province of Saxony. He originally trained to be a physician in Halle and Leipzig, and received his medical doctorate from Berlin in 1851. Afterwards, he was an assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin. Hoppe-Seyler preferred scientific research to medicine, and later held positions in anatomy, applied chemistry, and physiological chemistry in Greifswald, Tübingen and Strasbourg. At ...
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Seiler
Seiler (German for "roper") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *:de:Alexander_Seiler_I., Alexander Seiler I (1819–1891), Swiss Hotel Pioneer *:de:Hermann_Seiler, Hermann Seiler (1876–1961), Swiss Hotel Pioneer & Politician * Jack Seiler (born 1963), American politician and Mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida * Kerim Seiler (born 1974), Swiss artist and architect * Lewis Seiler (1890–1964), American film director * Lutz Seiler (born 1963), German poet and novelist * Paul Seiler (1945–2001), American football player * Reinhard Seiler (1909–1989), German Luftwaffe pilot * Robert Eldridge Seiler (1912–1998), American judge on the Missouri Supreme Court * Sebastian Seiler (1810–1890), German journalist * Sonny Seiler (1933–2023), American attorney and bulldog owner See also

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Sailer (other)
Sailer may refer to: * Sailer (surname) * Sailer butterflies: the butterfly genera ''Neptis'' (typical sailers) and ''Pseudoneptis'' (blue sailers) See also * Seiler Seiler (German for "roper") is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *:de:Alexander_Seiler_I., Alexander Seiler I (1819–1891), Swiss Hotel Pioneer *:de:Hermann_Seiler, Hermann Seiler (1876–1961), Swiss Hotel Pioneer & Politician * ... * Sailor (other) * Saylor {{disambiguation ...
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