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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Friedrich August von Alberti, Karl Ludwig Giesecke, Alfred Wegener, Abraham Gottlob Werner, Carl Reichenbach, Wilhelm Dunker, Christian Leopold von Buch, Werner Janensch, Johann Gottlob Lehmann, Friedrich Mohs, Julius von Haast, Ludwig Meyn, Karl Vogt, Hans Stille, Ferdinand Zirkel, Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen, Friedrich Seifert, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Wilhelm Sievers, Alphons Stubel, Karl Martin, Bernhard von Cotta, Nathaniel Gottfried Leske, Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Eduard Bornhardt, Hans Cloos, Amadeus William Grabau, Ernst Boll, Heinrich Georg Bronn, Josef Felix Pompeckj, Ferdinand von Roemer, Wilhelm Reiss, Wilhelm von Branca, Alfred Philippson, Henno Martin, Jean de Charpentier, Toussaint de Charpentier, Franz Kossmat, Harry Rosenbusch, Hanns Bruno Geinitz, Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, Georg Gurich, Alfred Kroner, Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, Wilhelm von Gumbel, Gregor von Helmersen, Karl Georg von Raumer, C. E. A. Wichmann, Alexander Keyserling, Richard Weyl, Albrecht Penck, Heinrich Girard, Otto Volger, Georg Hartung, Theodor Wolf, Johann Jakob Noggerath, Karl Mauch, Charles Konig, Wolf von Engelhardt, Adolf Overweg, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, Justus Ludwig Adolf Roth, Wilhelm Hauchecorne, Emanuel Kayser, Gustav Karl Laube, Wilhelm Schulz, Bernhard Edmaier, Carl Friedrich Heinrich Credner, Juan Bruggen Messtorff, Heinrich Quiring. Excerpt: Karl Ludwig Giesecke (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. His father was Johann Georg Metzler, a Protestant who worked as a tailor in Augsburg. His mother was named Sibylla Magdalena Gotz. He attended the G...
