Georg August Wilhelm Seyler (2 June 1800 in Celle – 17 January 1866) was a German theologian and priest, and the adoptive father of Felix Hoppe-Seyler, the principal founder of biochemistry and molecular biology.
He belonged to the originally Swiss Seyler family from Liestal and Basel.
He was a nephew of the prominent Hamburg banker Ludwig Erdwin Seyler and of the Sturm und Drang poet Johann Anton Leisewitz.
[1][2] He early took an interest in classics and literature, and was particularly influenced by Shakespeare and Goethe.
After earning a doctorate in theology, he entered the priestly seminary of Wittenberg.