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Karl Ludwig Giesecke

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German actor, explorer, mineralogist (1761-1833)

ScientistsLived 1761 to 1833 · aged 71
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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.

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Portrait of Carl Ludwig Giesecke by Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1813Portrait of Carl Ludwig Giesecke by Sir Henry Raeburn, ca. 1813The original Hüon und Amande by Sophie SeylerThe original Hüon und Amande by Sophie SeylerThe cabinet which once contained the collections of Giesecke, in the RDSThe cabinet which once contained the collections of Giesecke, in the RDS

Awards 2

Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog
commander of the Order of the Dannebrog

Scientists born in the 1760s 6

Bernhard Meyer40.9David Heinrich Hoppe40.6Stanisław Bonifacy Jundziłł41.1Friedrich Gottlob Hayne40.5Bryan Donkin41.1Frederick Albert Winsor40.5

About this person

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.

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deceased
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Lived 1761 to 1833 · aged 71
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