What is recorded here
Karl Ludwig Giesecke died in County Dublin, Ireland, on 5 March 1833. He arrived there after a life of reinvention, acting in Vienna, exploring polar regions, and studying minerals while hiding his Augsburg birth name. Dublin became the final address for a man who kept changing shapes, suggesting that even death could not stop his habit of becoming someone new.
Why this person is known: German actor, explorer, mineralogist (1761-1833)
- Place of death
- Dublin
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