The Seyler family (also spelled Seiler) is a Swiss family, originally a patrician family from

Liestal Liestal (, Standard ), formerly spelled Liesthal, is the capital of Liestal District and the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, south of Basel. Liestal is an industrial town with a Cobbled street, cobbled-street ...

near

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. Family members served as councillors and

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en of Liestal from the 15th century, later also as members of the Grand Council of Basel. A

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branch descended from the banker and renowned theatre director

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 dev ...

became by marriage a part of the Berenberg banking dynasty, co-owners of

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and part of Hamburg's ruling class of Hanseaten.

History

Among the earliest known family members are Johannes Seyler, who was a councillor in

in 1445, and Martin Seyler, a

(mayor) of Liestal in 1477. Balthasar Seyler (died 1460) was a canon and dean of the

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of St. Peter.Seyler
" in ''Allgemeines Helvetisches, Eydgenössisches, Oder Schweitzerisches Lexicon'' (1747–1765), XVII, pp. 42–45 Magister Friedrich Seyler (1603–1676), a native of

, first served as parish priest of Bichwyl and

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in St. Gallen, later as teacher and rector of the ''Schule auf Burg'' gymnasium in

, and then again as parish priest, and obtained the Basel burghership in 1670. He was married to Rosina Stöcklin (1612–1681), daughter of the Basel council member Matthys Stöcklin (1577-1649), and they were the parents of Margaretha Seyler (1639–1695), who married Professor of Ethics, Rhetoric and Law Simon Battier (1629–1681), and of the noted

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theologian

Friedrich Seyler Friedrich Seyler (13 December 1642 – 31 January 1708), also spelled Friedrich Seiler, was a Swiss Reformed pastor and theologian from Basel, noted for his work ''Anabaptista Larvatus'' on Anabaptism. ''Anabaptista Larvatus'' He is noted for hi ...

(1642–1708). Friedrich Seyler was pastor at St. Peter's Church in Basel and wrote a history of

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and a refutation of Anabaptist "errors." In 1672, he married Elisabeth Socin (born 1655), who belonged to an Italian-origined noble family and who was the daughter of the Basel judge, member of the Grand Council and envoy to the French court

Abel Socin Abel Socin (born 1632 in Basel, died 1695 in Basel) was a Swiss merchant, politician, law lord (Gerichtsherr) and diplomat from Basel. He was a member of the Grand Council of Basel and served as the envoy of the Swiss Confederation to the French ...

(1632–1695) and Maria Hummel (1635–1681), as well as a niece of Basel burgomaster

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. Friedrich Seyler and Elisabeth Socin were the parents of the theologian Abel Seyler (1684–1767), who was parish priest of Frenkendorf-Munzach in the

district of Basel from 1714 to 1763. Abel Seyler was married to Anna Katharina Burckhardt (1694–1773), a member of the Basel patrician

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and the daughter of Johann Rudolf Burckhardt and Anna Maria Merian, and granddaughter of Susanna

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. Anna Katharina Burckhardt was a descendant of the famous publisher and humanist

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and many of her ancestors had been councillors and burgomasters of Basel. Abel Seyler the Elder and Anna Katharina Burckhardt were the parents of Elisabeth Seyler (1715–1798), married to parish priest Daniel Merian (1700–1779), and businessman and famed theatre director

(1730–1801).

Abel Seyler and the Hamburg branch of the family

(1730–1801) emigrated from Liestal to

and established himself as a wealthy businessman there. He established the bank ''

Seyler & Tillemann Seyler & Tillemann was a Hamburg merchant bank in the 1750s and 1760s, that was owned by Abel Seyler and Johann Martin Tillemann. It involved itself in the currency market and "malicious" speculation with financial instruments during the Seven Ye ...

'' with his business associate

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, which speculated heavily on currency

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during the

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. The company went spectacularly bankrupt in what was termed a "malicious bankruptcy" with 3 million Mark Banco, an enormous sum, in debts, but Seyler and Tillemann were able to retain some of their fortunes. Subsequently, Seyler devoted himself completely to the theatre, first as the main financial backer of the Hamburgische Entreprise (the Hamburg National Theatre), collaborating closely with its dramaturge

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, and subsequently as the founder and director of the Seyler theatrical company, becoming "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime and employing some of Germany's foremost actors, playwrights and composers. Abel Seyler is also credited with introducing

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to a German language audience. He ''inter alia'' commissioned the play ''

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'' by Klinger, that gave its name to the era. Sophie Friederike Hensel

In 1754, Abel Seyler married Sophie Elisabeth Andreae (1730–1764), the daughter of the wealthy

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court pharmacist Leopold Andreae (1686–1730) and the sister of the renowned natural scientist J.G.R. Andreae. They were the parents of two sons and a daughter, the court pharmacist and

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member Abel Jacob Gerhard Seyler, the prominent Hamburg banker Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836) and ''Sophie'' Marie Katharina Seyler (1762–1833). Following the death of their mother in 1764, the Seyler children grew up with their uncle J.G.R. Andreae in Hanover and hardly saw their biological father for the rest of his life. In 1772, Abel Seyler married his long-time mistress Friederike Sophie Seyler (1737/1738–1789), who was alongside

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Germany's leading actress of the 18th century, and who wrote the Singspiel '' Hüon und Amande'' that was a major inspiration for the libretto of the opera ''

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''. They had no children. The oldest son of Abel Seyler, Abel Jacob Gerhard Seyler (1756–1805), was court pharmacist in

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1791–1803 and also inherited the Andreae & Co. pharmacy with his two siblings as co-heirs, which was sold in 1803. He was married to Karoline Auguste Luise Klügel (1770–1841), a daughter of the noted mathematician and physicist

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. Their only son was Georg August Wilhelm Seyler (1800–1866), a doctor of theology and pastor in

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. He was married (1826) to Klara Franziska Hoppe, a daughter of the

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(bishop) Ernst August Dankegott Hoppe. Georg Seyler became a second father to his wife's orphaned younger siblings, and in 1864 he formally adopted his 25 years younger brother in law, the later noted physiologist and chemist

Felix 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 nuclei ...

, who added the Seyler name to his birth name. The second son of Abel Seyler, Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836), was married to Anna Henriette Gossler (1771–1836), a member of the Hamburg

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Berenberg-Gossler banking dynasty, who was the eldest daughter of banker

Johann Hinrich Gossler Johann Hinrich Gossler (18 August 1738 – 31 August 1790) was a German merchant and banker. He was married to Elisabeth Berenberg (1749–1822) and succeeded his father-in-law Johann Berenberg as head of the Berenberg & Gossler company, that ...

and

Elisabeth Berenberg Elisabeth Berenberg (2 December 1749 – 16 January 1822) was a Hamburg heiress, merchant banker and a member of the Berenberg family. She was the last male line member of the Flemish-origined Hanseatic Berenberg banking family in Hamburg, and a ...

(1749–1822). Elisabeth Berenberg was the only heir of the

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-origined Berenberg banking family of

grand burgher Grand Burgher

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or Grand Burgheress emale(from German: Großbürger

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s who established

in 1590, and her grandfather Rudolf Berenberg had become a senator in 1735. She was also descended from the

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family. Johann Hinrich Gossler had become owner of the bank by marrying her in 1768, as her father had no male heirs and as the Hamburg branch of the Berenberg family was becoming extinct in the male line. In 1788, Gossler took on Seyler, his son-in-law, as the new partner, and following Gossler's death in 1790, Ludwig Seyler became head of the firm. Ludwig Seyler served, ''inter alia'', as President of the Commerz-Deputation (1817–18), one of Hamburg's three main political bodies, and as a member of the

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(Erbgesessene Bürgerschaft). He was the brother in law of Hamburg senator

Johann Heinrich Gossler Johann Heinrich Gossler (28 March 1775 – 3 April 1842) was a Hamburg banker and grand burgher, a member of the Berenberg-Gossler-Seyler banking dynasty, a co-owner (from 1798) of the Berenberg Bank and a senator of Hamburg from 1821. He was the ...

and the uncle of First Mayor (head of state)

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. Ludwig Seyler and Anna Henriette Gossler were the parents of *Sophie Henriette Elisabeth ("Betty") Seyler (1789–1837), who married Hamburg businessman Gerhard von Hosstrup, who founded the Hamburger Börsenhalle in 1804. Their daughter Bertha von Hosstrup (1814–1902) was married to the legal scholar and politician

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. *Auguste Seyler, who married Gerhard von Hosstrup after the death of her sister *Louise ("Wischen") Seyler (1799–1849), who married ship broker Ernst Friedrich Pinckernelle (1787–1868), whose sons founded the G. & J. E. Pinckernelle insurance broker firm * Henriette Seyler (1805–1875), who married the Norwegian industrialist

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(1795–1864), a co-owner of

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and the

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estate, and owner of

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*Emmy Seyler, married Homann *Molly Seyler The only daughter of Abel Seyler, ''Sophie'' Marie Katharina Seyler (1762–1833), who was regarded as strikingly beautiful, was married (1781) to their distant relative, the

poet

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, the author of '' Julius of Taranto''. They had no children. File:Sophie Leisewitz née Seyler.jpg, Sophie Seyler, wife of

File:Elisabeth Seyler and her husband Gerhard von Hosstrup painted ca. 1815 by Friedrich Carl Gröger.jpg, Elisabeth Seyler (1789–1837), daughter of

owner L.E. Seyler and Anna Henriette Gossler, and her husband Gerhard von Hosstrup, painted ca. 1815 by

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File:Henriette Seyler drawn by her sister Molly Seyler in 1827 (cropped).jpeg, Henriette Seyler (1805–75, married to industrialist

), daughter of

owner L.E. Seyler and Anna Henriette Gossler, drawn by her sister Molly in 1827

Coat of arms

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, a rising

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, with

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and cloven hooves, Or, that is, a rising white deer with golden antler and cloven hooves in a red shield. Sometimes the arms also includes a green base or mountain, e.g. in the arms of mayor of Liestal Adam Seiler from 1587.Otto Titan von Hefner, Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt, Gustav A. Seyler, ''Die Wappen bürgerlicher Geschlechter Deutschlands und der Schweiz'', vol. 3, Bauer & Raspe, 1973, p. 10

Lineage

*Jacob Seiler (born in the 1570s, died 1610), married Barbara Dietler **Friedrich Seyler (1603–1676), Magister, rector of the Schule auf Burg gymnasium, married Rosina Stöcklin (1612–1681), daughter of Basel councillor Matthys Stöcklin (1577-1649) and Margret Kündig (b. 1583) ***Margaretha Seyler (1639–1695), married Simon Battier (1629–1681), Professor of Ethics, Rhetoric and Law ***

(1642–1708), Calvinist theologian, married Elisabeth Socin (born 1655), daughter of Basel judge, member of the Grand Council and envoy to the French court

(1632–1695) and Maria Hummel (1635–1681) ****Maria Rosina Seiler (1674–1703), married parish priest Johann Rudolf Brenner (1670–1737) ****Elisabeth Seiler (1675–1711), married Johann Heinrich Krug (1652–1703) ****Friedrich Seiler (born 1679), merchant, married Anna Stähelin and Anna Maria Passavant *****(of first marriage) Elisabeth Seiler (1709–1743), married Johann Rudolf

Burckhardt The Burckhardt family alternatively also (de) Bourcard (in French) is a family of the Basel patriciate, descended from Christoph (Stoffel) Burckhardt (1490–1578), a merchant in cloth and silk originally from Münstertal, Black Forest, who rece ...

(1706–1765) ****Abel Seyler (1684–1767), Dr.theol., parish priest in

, married Anna Katharina

(1694–1773), daughter of Johann Rudolf Burckhardt and Anna Maria Merian *****Elisabeth Seyler (1715–1798), married parish priest Daniel Merian (1700–1779) *****

(1730–1801), businessman, subsequently theatre director, married Sophie Elisabeth

Andreae Andreae is a surname. The name may refer to: * Andreae & Co., a historical pharmacy in Hanover *Charles Andreae (1906–1970), English cricketer *Giles Andreae (born 1966), British poet, artist, and greeting card writer *Hieronymus Andreae (died 15 ...

(1730–1764), daughter of the Hanover court pharmacist Leopold Andreae (1686–1730) and Katharina Elisabeth Rosenhagen (died 1752), and in his second marriage actress Friederike Sophie Seyler (née Sparmann) ******(of first marriage) Abel Jacob Gerhard Seyler (1756–1805), court pharmacist and member of the

, married Karoline Auguste Luise Klügel (1770–1841), daughter of mathematician and physicist

******* Georg August Wilhelm Seyler (1800–1866), doctor of theology and pastor in

, married Klara Hoppe, daughter of Freiburg

(bishop) Ernst August Dankegott Hoppe ********

(1825–1895), physiologist and chemist, adopted son, biological younger brother of his wife ******(of first marriage) Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836), head and co-owner (1788–1836) of

, married Anna Henriette Gossler (1771–1836), daughter of banker

and

*******Sophie Henriette Elisabeth ("Betty") Seyler (1789–1837), married businessman Gerhard von Hosstrup *******Johann Hinrich Seyler *******Emilie ("Emmy") Seyler, married to the physician Ludwig Friedrich Christian Homann *******Louise ''Auguste'' Seyler, married to Gerhard von Hosstrup after the death of her sister *******Maria ("Molly") Seyler *******Louise ("Wischen") Seyler (1799–1849), married shipbroker Ernst Friedrich Pinckernelle ******* Henriette Seyler (1805–1875), married the Norwegian industrialist

******(of first marriage) ''Sophie'' Marie Katharina Seyler (1762–1833), married poet and lawyer

****Benedikt Seiler (born 1687), Spezierer, married (1714) Anna Cath. Fuchs (1679–1763) *****Friedrich Seiler (1715–1777), wig maker, married (1738) Maria Marg. Bossert (1714–1789)

References

Literature

Seiler, auch Seyler
" in ''Allgemeines Helvetisches, Eydgenössisches, Oder Schweitzerisches Lexicon'' (1747–1765), XVII, pp. 42–45
Seiler
in ''Historiches Lexikon der Schweiz'' *A. Seiler-Rosenmund, ''Stammbaum der Bürgergeschlechter von Liestal'', vol. 1, 1908, pp. 111–119 *Josef Widmann, ''Bürger-Familienbuch von Liestal'', Lüdin & Walser, 1860
Auszug Stamm Seiler in / aus Liestal
stroux.org ;Hamburg branch * Magazin zur Geschichte des deutschen Theaters, 1773, VI, pp. 264–276 *

Percy Ernst Schramm Percy Ernst Schramm (14 October 1894 – 12 November 1970) was a German historian who specialized in art history and medieval history. Schramm was a Chair and Professor of History at the University of Göttingen from 1929 to 1963. Early lif ...

, ''Neun Generationen: Dreihundert Jahre deutscher Kulturgeschichte im Lichte der Schicksale einer Hamburger Bürgerfamilie (1648–1948)'', Vol. I, Göttingen, 1963 *

, ''Kaufleute zu Haus und über See. Hamburgische Zeugnisse des 17., 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts'', Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe, 1949 *

, "Kaufleute während Besatzung, Krieg und Belagerung (1806–1815) : der Hamburger Handel in der Franzosenzeit, dargestellt an Hand von Firmen- und Familienpapieren." ''Tradition: Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmerbiographie'', Vol. 4. Jahrg., No. 1. (Feb 1959), pp. 1–22. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40696638 *

, "Hamburger Kaufleute in der 2. Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts," in: ''Tradition. Zeitschrift für Firmengeschichte und Unternehmerbiographie'' 1957, No 4., pp. 307–332. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40696554

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