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Seyer, Georg Christian

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Clergy
Biography

Georg Christian Seger was born in 1713 in Suckow (bei Parchim) [Germany]. He is recorded on a list of students made 15 April 1733 who were enrolled during the winter semester of 1732-1733 at the University of Rostock.

Georg Christian Seger, a rector, his wife Anna Maria, and children (Jakob Rudolph; Katharina Christina) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 July 1766 aboard the Russian packet-boat named Lebed (Swan) under the command of Lieutenant Timofey Yelchin.

The Rev. Georg Christian Seyer served the parishes in Beideck and Schilling from 1767-1770.

He died on 18 March 1770 in Beideck.

Source(s)

- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 356.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2687.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 172.
- University of Rostock. List of students matriculating in 1732-1733. [Online]

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