Karl Ludwig Giesecke

German actor, explorer, mineralogist (1761-1833).

Carl Ludwig Giesecke FRSE (6 April 1761 in Augsburg – 5 March 1833 in Dublin) 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.

Abbreviations: Giesecke
Occupations: university teacher, stage actor, mineralogist, librettist, poet lawyer, geologist, explorer, botanist
Citizenships: Kingdom of Bavaria
Languages: German, English
Dates: 1761-04-06T00:00:00Z – 1833-03-05T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Augsburg
Authorship mentions: 1 plant, 0 fungi

1 plant contributed to1 plant:

Marsupella sphacelata (Speckled Rustwort) (Giesecke ex Lindenb.) Dumort. 1835
plant species in the gymnomitriaceae family
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