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Karl Ludwig Giesecke
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<p>Carl Ludwig Giesecke <a href="/facts/FRSE/6T9ftn3H">FRSE</a> (6 April 1761 in <a href="/facts/Augsburg/5aceyku1">Augsburg</a> – 5 March 1833 in <a href="/facts/Dublin/Fv8ezm8a">Dublin</a>) was a German actor, <a href="/facts/Libretto/Nt8PWhWk">librettist</a>, <a href="/facts/Polar_explorer/jprLGuSW">polar explorer</a> and <a href="/facts/Mineralogy/MeIK9lx9">mineralogist</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/Mozart/2X5fm67T">Mozart</a>’s famous opera <a href="/facts/The_Magic_Flute/XRA9fn1s">The Magic Flute</a>. </p>