John James Heidegger

John James Heidegger was a Swiss-born British impresario of masquerades in England in the early part of the 18th century. The son of Zürich clergyman Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Johann Jacob Heidegger came to England in 1708 as a Swiss negotiator. He failed in his undertaking, and was involved in difficulties. Heidegger subsequently enlisted in the British Army as a private in the Foot Guards, and afterwards became influential in the management of the opera. In 1709 he made five hundred guineas by furnishing the spectacle for Peter Anthony Motteux's opera Thomyris, Queen of Scythia.