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Karl Ludwig Giesecke

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Karl Ludwig Giesecke
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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)

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Dublin

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Photo: Henry Raeburn · Public domain