# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-ludwig-giesecke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:23:20.005Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-ludwig-giesecke"
name: "Karl Ludwig Giesecke"
slug: "karl-ludwig-giesecke"
description: "Carl Ludwig Giesecke FRSE was a German actor, librettist, polar explorer and mineralogist. In his youth he was called Johann Georg Metzler; in his later career in Ireland he was Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke. Late in his life he claimed to friends to have been, in his youth, the librettist of Mozart’s famous opera The Magic Flute."
tagline: "German actor, explorer, mineralogist (1761-1833)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/KarlLudwigGiesecke.PNG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1761-04-06"
deathDate: "1833-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.27318266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كارل لودفيج جيسيك"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ludwig_Giesecke"
    title: "Carl Ludwig Giesecke"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Giesecke"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Giesecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Giesecke"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Giesecke"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ludwig_Giesecke"
    title: "Karl Ludwig Giesecke"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%92%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BC%E3%82%B1"
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    title: "Karl Ludwig Giesecke"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Ludwig_Giesecke"
    title: "Carl Ludwig Giesecke"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9B%D1%8E%D0%B4%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B3_%D0%93%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B5"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump