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Giesecke may refer to: People: * Heinz-Eberhard Giesecke (1913–1991), German historian *Karl Ludwig Giesecke FRSE (1761–1833), German actor, librettist, polar explorer and mineralogist *Markus Giesecke (born 1979), German futsal player from Regensburg Businesses: *Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), German company that prints banknotes and securities, smart cards, etc. *Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry, German type foundry & manufacturer of printing presses started in 1819 in Leipzig Geography: *Giesecke Glacier, a glacier in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland *Giesecke Isfjord, a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland See also *Geseke *Giese *Giske Giske is an island municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality lies north-northwest of the town of Ålesund in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The municipal centre is Valderhaugstrand. Other population centres in ...
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Markus Giesecke
Markus Giesecke (born 15 April 1979) is a German futsal player from Regensburg, Germany who plays for Futsal Allgaeu, a futsal club based in Kaufbeuren, Germany. Club career He started playing futsal in Spain and England and was signed by Futsal Club Regensburg in 2014 to play in the newly founded Futsal-Bayernliga, where he made his debut in Regensburg's 5-4 victory over SpVgg Bayreuth on matchday 3. In the winter break 2015/16 he was transferred to then first division side TV Wackersdorf. He came from the bench in Wackersdorf's 9-4 victory over Cosmos Hoechst on the last matchday and appeared in a total of 14 matches during his two-season spell with the Upper Palatinate club. He scored his first goal in the Futsal-Regionalliga on 8 October 2016 (matchday 4) in a 9-5 away loss to Germania Ober-Roden. During the off-season, he helped Wackersdorf to win their own international futsal tournament in Wackersdorf against German and Czech Republican top teams and the Portus Ro ...
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Karl Ludwig Giesecke
Carl Ludwig Giesecke FRSE (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. He is falsely accused of being the librettist of his friend Mozart’s The Magic Flute Early life His father was Johann Georg Metzler, a Protestant who worked as a tailor in Augsburg. His mother was named Sibylla Magdalena Götz.Whittaker (2007, 149) He attended the Gymnasium in Augsburg,Honolka and Pauly (1990, 142) and did well academically, as is known from the surviving remarks of his schoolmaster recommending him for university study. He attended the University of Göttingen from 1781 to 1784, studying law. He also developed a side interest in mineralogy, attending the lectures of the naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. It was in 1781 that he took the pseudonym by which he is now known. The name change w ...
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Giesecke & Devrient
Giesecke+Devrient, also known as (G+D), is a German company headquartered in Munich that provides banknote and securities printing, smart cards, and cash handling systems. History Founded in 1852 by Hermann Giesecke and Alphonse Devrient, the firm initially specialized in high-quality printing, notably currency and securities printing. From the 1850s to the 1870s the firm printed some of the important biblical editions of Constantin von Tischendorf. The partnership's reputation for quality work was confirmed at the 1867 international exhibition in Paris. Giesecke+Devrient supplied currency during the inflation in the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, one of the most prominent cases of hyperinflation. It also printed tickets to the 1936 Olympics in Germany and did business with Spain under Franco."Zimbabwe Can't Paper Over Its Million-Percent Inflation Anymore; Under Pressure, German Company Cuts Off Shipments of Blank Bank Notes to Mugabe," ''Wall Street Journal.'' July 2, 2008. ...
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Schelter & Giesecke Type Foundry
J.G. Schelter & Giesecke was a German type foundry and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in Leipzig by punchcutter Johann Schelter and typefounder Christian Friedrich Giesecke (1793-1850). The foundry was nationalized in 1946 by the new German Democratic Republic, forming VEB Typoart, Dresden. Typefaces These foundry types were produced by Schelter & Giesecke: Typefaces The foundry claimed by the twentieth century to have been one of the first to offer general-purpose sans-serif In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called " serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than s ... typefaces with lower-case, as early as 1825.Lawson, Alexander S., Anatomy of a Typeface,'' David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990, , p. 296. This was repeated by some authors, but is now known to be untrue: Wolfgang Homola ...
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Giesecke Glacier
Giesecke Glacier ( da, Giesecke brær) is a glacier in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Its outflow is split in the center by a nunatak. Through two tongues it drains the Greenland ice sheet The Greenland ice sheet ( da, Grønlands indlandsis, kl, Sermersuaq) is a vast body of ice covering , roughly near 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is sometimes referred to as an ice cap, or under the term ''inland ice'', or its Danish equi ... westwards into Kangerlussuaq Icefjord.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The northern tongue ( kl, Qeqertarsuup Sermia) reaches the fjord at . The southern tongue ( kl, Kakiffait Sermiat) reaches the fjord at . References Tasiusaq Bay Glaciers of the Upernavik Archipelago {{Greenland-glacier-stub ...
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Giesecke Isfjord
Kangerlussuaq Icefjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', da, Giesecke Isfjord) is a fjord in Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. Geography The long fjord flows to the northwest between the mainland of Greenland in the northeast, and a chain of islands in the southwest: Aukarnersuaq Island, Anarusuk Island, Nuuluk Island, Qallunaat Island, and Tuttorqortooq Island. The fjord head is located at , where the southern tongue of Giesecke Glacier, named ( kl, Kakiffait Sermiat), reaches the fjord. The fjord mouth is located in the northernmost part of Tasiusaq Bay, between Tuttorqortooq Island in the southwest and Mernoq Island in the north.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, 1:250.000, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 Qaaneq Fjord The innermost portion of the fjord bears a different name: ''Qaaneq'' (old spelling: ''Qâneq''). It is an inner extension of Kangerlussuaq Icefjord, with the flow from one to the other disrupted by the Kakiffait Sermiat glacier tongue. If the length of both ...
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Geseke
''Geseke'' () is a town in the administrative district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Geseke is situated approximately 12 km south-east of Lippstadt and 20 km south-west of Paderborn. The city is located at the Hellweg and B1. Further south in Steinhausen is the motorway that leads to the A44 ( Dortmund- Kassel). In Ahden in Paderborn administrative district is the Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport. The town has his own railway station which lies next to the Edeka and the Aldi market. From Geseke, there's a connection to other cities including Paderborn and Lippstadt. The Ems-Börde-Bahn from the Eurobahn which is part of the Keolis Gruppe runs from Münster via Hamm, Soest, Lippstadt, Geseke to Paderborn and occasionally via Altenbecken, Warburg and Hofgeismar to Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe. In Soest you have an additionally connection to Dortmund via Werl and Unna. The RE1 (Regionalbahn 1) of the Deutsche Bahn ends or starts in Paderborn and runs ...
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Giese
Giese is a German surname. Since the mid-19th century, people with this name have migrated throughout the world and now form an extensive diaspora in countries such as the United States and Australia, where they have lived for several generations. Notable people with the surname Giese include: * Albrecht Giese (1524–1580), councilman and diplomat from Danzig * Bernd Giese (born 1940), German professor of chemistry * Dan Giese (born 1977), American retired Major League Baseball pitcher * Erich Giese (1887–1917), German naval officer * Georg Giese (1497–1562), merchant from Danzig * Godehard Giese (born 1972), German actor * Harry Giese (1903–1991), German theatre and voice actor * Harry C. Giese (1913–2000), Australian administrator, public servant and community leader * Horst Giese (1926–2008), East German actor * Karl Giese (1898–1938), German archivist and museum curator * Kathrin Giese, East German sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s * Kenyon E. Giese (b ...
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