Ludwig Erdwin Seyler
| Ludwig Erdwin Seyler | |
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| Councillor (Senator) of Hamburg | |
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In office 1813–1814 |
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| President of the Hamburg Commercial Deputation | |
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In office May 1817 – July 1818 |
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| Preceded by | Jacob Albers |
| Succeeded by | Richard Parish |
| Member of the Hamburg Parliament | |
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In office 1814–1818 |
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15 May 1758 Hamburg |
| Died | 26 October 1836 (aged 78) Hamburg |
| Nationality | Hamburg |
Ludwig Erdwin Seyler (15 May 1758 – 26 October 1836; also Ludewig and Edwin, known as Ludwig E. Seyler or L.E. Seyler) was a merchant, banker and politician of the sovereign city-state, and briefly French city, of Hamburg. He was by marriage a member of the Hanseatic Berenberg banking dynasty, and was a co-owner of the Hamburg firm Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. (Berenberg Bank) for 48 years (1788–1836) and the company's head for 46 years (1790–1836). Seyler was one of the first merchants and bankers from modern Germany to establish trade relations with the United States and East Asia. He served as President of the Commercial Deputation, one of the city-state's main political bodies, as a Councillor (Senator) and as a member of the Hamburg Parliament. Ludwig Seyler was a son of the Swiss-born theatre director Abel Seyler and a son-in-law of the bankers Johann Hinrich Gossler and Elisabeth Berenberg.
Ludwig Seyler was born in Hamburg and was the younger son of the Swiss-born Hamburg banker turned theatre director Abel Seyler, co-owner of the bank Seyler & Tillemann, who later became "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime and who founded the Seyler Theatre Company, and Sophie Elisabeth Andreae (1730–1764), a daughter of the wealthy Hanover court pharmacist Leopold Andreae (1686–1730), owner of the Andreae & Co. pharmacy. On his father's side he was descended from many of Basel's leading patrician families, including Seyler, Burckhardt, Socin, Merian and Faesch. After his mother died in 1764, he and his two siblings grew up in Hanover with their uncle, the noted Enlightenment natural scientist J.G.R. Andreae. His father remarried in 1772 to Friederike Sophie Seyler, Germany's leading actress of the second half of the 18th century and the author of the opera Oberon, a major influence on the libretto of The Magic Flute. Ludwig Seyler was a brother of the court pharmacist and Illuminati member Abel Seyler the Younger and of Sophie Seyler (1762–1833), who was married to the Sturm und Drang poet Johann Anton Leisewitz, the author of Julius of Tarent. His nephew Georg Seyler was the adoptive father of Felix Hoppe-Seyler, the principal founder of biochemistry and molecular biology.
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