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Giesecke
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 * Albert Giesecke (1883-1968), American professor 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 may refer to: Places *Giske Municipality, a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway *Giske (island), a island within Giske Municpiality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway *Giske (village), a village within Giske Municpiality in Møre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markus Giesecke
Markus Giesecke (born 15 April 1979) is a German futsal player from Regensburg, Germany who plays for SpVgg Kaufbeuren, 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 Futsal-Regionalliga Süd, 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 Süd, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Late in his life he claimed to friends to have been, in his youth, the librettist of Mozart’s famous opera 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Giesecke
Albert Anthony Giesecke (Philadelphia, United States, November 30, 1883 – Miraflores, Lima, Peru, September 7, 1968) was an American teacher who came to Peru contracted by the government of that country. He was entrusted with the rectorship of the National University of San Antonio Abad in Cuzco, where he carried out a significant reform (1910–1923). He also served as the mayor of Cusco. Biography He was the son of Albert Frederick Giesecke (German immigrant) and Catalina Elizabeth Partheymüller de Giesecke. He studied Economics and Administration at the University of Pennsylvania and at Cornell University. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy and Jurisprudence; he traveled to Europe and attended courses at the universities of Berlin, Lausanne, and London. Upon returning to the United States, he began his teaching career at Cornell (1906–1908) and Pennsylvania (1908). He also worked as a researcher at the British Museum and in the Department of Statistics of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giesecke & Devrient
Giesecke+Devrient GmbH (G+D) is a German international security technology company operating in the fields of Computer security, digital security, financial platforms, and currency technology. Founded in 1852, the company evolved from a manufacturer of banknotes, substrates, banknote processing machines, securities, ID documents (such as Identity document, national ID cards and passports), and payment cards to a provider of security technologies in payment systems, identities, connectivity, and digital infrastructures. The company’s headquarters are located in Munich. G+D operates in 40 countries worldwide and achieved sales of €2.97 billion in 2023. As of 2024, the company produces banknotes for 145 central banks globally. History Foundation Founded in 1852 by Hermann Giesecke (1831–1900) and Alphonse Devrient (1821–1878), the firm initially specialized in high-quality printing, notably currency and securities printing. Two years after its founding, G+D printed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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: The foundry claimed by the twentieth century to have been one of the first to offer general-purpose Sans serif, sans-serif 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 dates it to 1882 based on a study of Schelter & Giesecke specimens. Press Manufacturing Beginning in 1827 Schelter & Giesecke manufactured letterpress presses, cylinder proof presses and platen presses; and after World War I also of web-fed, letter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giesecke Glacier
Giesecke Glacier () 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 is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of thick and over thick at its maximum. It is almost long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of at a latitude ... westwards into Kangerlussuaq Icefjord.''Upernavik'', Saga Map, Tage Schjøtt, 1992 The northern tongue () reaches the fjord at . The southern tongue () reaches the fjord at . References Tasiusaq Bay Glaciers of the Upernavik Archipelago {{Greenland-glacier-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giesecke Isfjord
Kangerlussuaq Icefjord (old spelling: ''Kangerdlugssuaq'', ) 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 (), 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 fjords were to be combined, the total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
