The founding father of all the Merians of Basel is one Theobald Merian (c.1415 – c.1505), a Basel episcopal bailiff or steward in Lüttelsdorf (now Courroux) in the Swiss canton of Jura.
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-- 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.
In the 17th and 18th century, the Burckhardts intermarried with the other leading families of the Basel patriciate (Iselin, Merian, Sarasin, Staehelin, Vischer, Wettstein).