Carl Ludwig Giesecke

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Carl Ludwig Giesecke

Carl Ludwig Giesecke , also Karl Ludwig Giesecke , born as Johann Georg Metzler (born April 6, 1761 Augsburg , † March 5, 1833 in Dublin ), was a German dancer , actor , lawyer , polar explorer and mineralogist . After studying law and mineralogy in Göttingen from 1781 to 1784, he took the stage name Carl Ludwig Giesecke.

Live and act

On St. John's Day in 1788 , Giesecke became a member of the Freemasons ' Union ; like Mozart, he was a member of the Vienna Lodge on the New Crowned Hope . From 1789 he worked as an actor and playwright at the Freihaustheater an der Wieden in Vienna under the direction of Emanuel Schikaneder . In the world premiere of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute , he was the first slave. According to Julius Cornet , Giesecke claimed in 1818 to be the actual author of the libretto of the Magic Flute. However, this claim is now considered refuted. Giesecke translated the Mozart operas Le nozze di Figaro (1793) and Così fan tutte (1794) into German.

Between 1789 and 1800 Giesecke wrote at least 15 opera librettos, which were set to music by various Viennese composers and were performed on various Viennese stages.

In 1800 Giesecke became a mineral dealer. In 1806 Giesecke traveled to Greenland as a mineralogist on behalf of the Royal Danish Trade Directorate . Due to the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars, he stayed there for several years - until 1813. He later wrote the geological-mineralogical standard work Gieseckes mineralogiske Rejse i Grønland about this stay .

In 1814 he received a professorship in mineralogy at the University of Dublin. He donated part of his Greenland collections to the Austrian state. Today it is part of the holdings of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Vienna.

In addition to stones, Giesecke also described some of the mosses growing on them and received the botanical author's abbreviation " Giesecke ". Since 1821 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

He died as Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke on March 5, 1833 in Dublin.

Honors

The 1328 m high Giesecke Bjerg and the Giesecke Bjerge mountains in East Greenland are named after him.

Is named after him, the plant genus Mezleria C.Presl from the family of Bellflower Family (Campanulaceae).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Gerold: Karl Ludwig Giesecke. Life and work . Dissertation Vienna 1936, page 28 ff.
  2. ^ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurerlexikon , revised and expanded new edition of the edition from 1932, Munich 2003, 951 pages, ISBN 3-7766-2161-3
  3. ^ Julius Cornet: The Opera in Germany and the Theater of the Modern Times , Hamburg 1849, p. 24f.
  4. ↑ Jan Assmann : The Magic Flute. Opera and Mystery . Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20673-6 , p. 315 note 11, with reference to Otto Rommel, Die Alt-Wiener Volkskomödie. Your story from the baroque world theater to the death of Nestroy , Vienna 1952, pp. 493ff and 979–991; also to Volkmar Braunbehrens , Mozart in Vienna. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-492-02995-7 , pp. 401f
  5. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Anthony K. Higgins: Catalog of place names in northern East Greenland (PDF; 9.4 MB). In: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 21, 2010), ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9 (English).
  7. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Giesecke, Carl Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Metzler, Johann Georg; Giesecke, Karl Ludwig; Giesecke, Charles Lewis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, actor, playwright, lawyer and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1833
Place of death Dublin