Seyler (patrician family)

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The theater principal Abel Seyler
Coat of arms of the Seyler family (Seiler) from Liestal and Basel

Seyler is a Swiss patrician family from Liestal  and Basel . Members of the family were councilors and mayors in Liestal since the 15th century. Since 16./17. In the 19th century, family members were also citizens of the city of Basel and were closely related to other Basel patrician families such as Socin , Passavant , Burckhardt and Merian .

The most famous member of the family, the banker and theater principal Abel Seyler , founded the Hamburg branch of the family, which was counted among the Hanseatic people. In Hamburg, the family was co-owner of the Berenberg Bank and was closely related to the Berenberg / Gossler and Amsinck families .

Basel branch

Magister Friedrich Seyler (1603–1676) was born in Basel. After studying philosophical and theological studies, he was called to Toggenburg as a pastor. In 1631 he became the preceptor of the eighth grade at the school in Burg in Basel, then vice rector and in 1666 rector (Gymnasiarch). He received the citizenship of Basel in 1670. He was married to Rosina Stöcklin, the daughter of the Basel councilor Matthys Stöcklin. Her son was the Basel pastor and theologian Friedrich Seyler (1642–1708). The latter was married to Elisabeth Socin, the daughter of the envoy to the French court Abel Socin and niece of the Basel mayor  Emanuel Socin .

Among his children were Dr. theol. Abel Seyler (1684–1767), who was pastor in Frenkendorf-Munzach in Liestal from 1714 to 1763. He was married to Anna Katharina Burckhardt (1694–1773) and their son was the well-known theater principal Abel Seyler , who founded the Hamburg branch of the family.

Hamburg branch

The Hamburg branch of the family was founded by Abel Seyler (1730–1801). As a young man he moved from the canton of Basel to Hamburg, where he worked as a merchant and banker until 1766. Among other things, during the Seven Years' War he traded with Johann Tillemann in under- valued stern coins , which they had produced in the Mint zu Rethwisch near Hamburg . The turmoil caused by the deterioration of the coin caused the demise of Seyler and Tillemann's trading house after the end of the war.

Seyler later became the main supporter of the Hamburg Entreprise , "the leading sponsor of German theater" and the founder and director of Seyler's Drama Society . He married Sophie Elisabeth Andreae (1730–64), the daughter of the wealthy Hanover court pharmacist Leopold Andreae and the sister of the naturalist Johann Gerhard Reinhard Andreae . After her death he was married to Friederike Sophie Seyler , the most famous German actress in the second half of the 18th century. Their singspiel Hüon und Amande served as the basis for the libretto for The Magic Flute . Abel Seyler was the father of the banker Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (1758–1836), who was married in 1788 to Anna Henriette Gossler (1771–1836), daughter of the banker Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg . Elisabeth Berenberg was the only heiress of the Berenberg banking family as the daughter of Johann Berenberg and granddaughter of Senator Rudolf Berenberg and Anna Elisabeth Amsinck . In the same year Ludwig Seyler became a co-owner of the Berenberg trading and banking house , and after the death of his father-in-law in 1790 he became a senior at the company. His mother-in-law Elisabeth Gossler geb. Berenberg became a co-owner of the trading house himself from 1790. Ludwig Seyler was also a member from 1813 and then from 1817–18 President of the Commerz Depution and member of the hereditary citizenship . He was brother-in-law of the Senator Johann Heinrich Gossler and the uncle of the First Mayor Hermann Gossler . His sister Sophie Seyler (1762–1833) was married to Johann Anton Leisewitz .

Ludwig Seyler's two daughters, Betty (actually Elisabeth) and Auguste Seyler, were married to Gerhard von Hoßtrup . The daughter Louise Seyler was married to the ship broker Ernst Friedrich Pinckernelle, and her sons founded the Hamburg insurance brokerage company G. & JE Pinckernelle. The daughter Henriette Seyler (1805-1875) was married to the Norwegian industrialist Benjamin Wegner . Her son, Judge Johann Ludwig Wegner, was married to Blanca Bretteville, daughter of the Norwegian Prime Minister Christian Zetlitz Bretteville , and was the father-in-law of the President of the Supreme Court of Norway, Karenus Kristofer Thinn. Henriette Seyler was also the grandmother of the President of the Norwegian Red Cross Nikolai Nissen Paus, the famous war correspondent Benjamin Wegner Nørregaard and the President of the Norwegian Bar Association Harald Nørregaard.

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See also

literature

  • Seyler , in General Helvetisches, Eydgenössisches, or Schweitzerisches Lexicon (1747–1765), XVII, pp. 42–45
  • Franz Wirth: Seiler (BL). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 18, 2012 , accessed July 7, 2009 .
  • A. Seiler-Rosenmund, Family Tree of the Citizens of Liestal , Vol. 1, 1908, pp. 111–119
  • Josef Widmann, Citizen Family Book by Liestal , Lüdin & Walser, 1860
  • Magazine on the history of German theater . 1773, VI, pp. 264-276
  • Paul Schlenther: Abel Seyler . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 778-782
  • Thomas Bauman, North German Opera in the Age of Goethe , 1985
  • Percy Ernst Schramm , merchants at home and by sea. Hamburg evidence of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1949.
  • Percy Ernst Schramm , Nine Generations: Three Hundred Years of German Cultural History in the Light of the Fate of a Hamburg Bourgeois Family (1648–1948) , Vol. I, Göttingen, 1963

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: Abel Seyler . In: Dictionary of German Biography , eds. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, Vol. 9, Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3110966298 , p. 308
  2. ↑ Peter Branscombe, WA Mozart: Die Zauberflöte , Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 28