Johann Valentin Schüler

Johann Valentin Schüler was one of a family of silversmiths whose workshops in Frankfurt-am-Main produced ritual objects for Frankfurt’s Jewish community. The family included his brother, Johann Michael Schüler (b. 1658), and brother-in-law Johann Adam Boller. His father, Michael Schüler, was also a silversmith. Boller and the Schülers were the first to produce a new type of Hanukkah lamp, for home use, that became popular in the Jewish community in Frankfurt in the early eighteenth century.