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2 unusual facts about Abel Seyler


Abel Seyler

-- Possibly a relation to Friedrich Seiler (1642–1708), a reformed theologian in Basel who wrote a book --> His grandmother was Anna Maria Merian (1671–1698) of the patrician Merian family, and her mother Susanna Faesch belonged to the Faesch family, the richest family of Basel.

Hüon und Amande

It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).


Konrad Ernst Ackermann

In 1767 the troupe was sold to a consortium of private owners, called the Hamburg National Theatre or the Hamburgische Entreprise, also known as Lessing's Dramaturgie, with Abel Seyler as its main backer.


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