John James Heidegger

John James Heidegger, actually Johann Jacob Heidegger ( born June 16, 1659 Zurich, † September 7, 1749 in Richmond upon Thames ) was an impresario in London.

Heidegger was a son of the theologian Johann Heinrich Heidegger. He went to England in 1708 and emerged in 1710 to work as an assistant director of the Queen's Theatre, where he organized scandalous masquerade balls. From 1713 to 1738 he was commercial director of the now renamed the King's Theatre, 1719-1728 Director of the Royal Academy of Music, the opera company, composed for the Georg Friedrich Handel, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and Attilio Ariosti.

In 1838, Heidegger withdrew from the capital London in the nearby town of Richmond upon Thames, where remembered one more " decorated with all sorts of Swiss landscapes room" to Heidegger in 1910 in a house in Maids of Honour Row.

In Shepherd 's Bush, Richmond upon Thames, Greater London today, the streets " Heidegger Crescent " is named after the former famous residents.