About Karl Emil Lischke
Lived 1813 – 1886 (aged 72). Karl Emil Lischke was a German diplomat, politician, lawyer, zoologist, malacologist and primator.
Karl Emil Lischke (30 December 1819, in Stettin – 14 January 1886, in Bonn) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat, and amateur naturalist. He is best known for his contributions to malacology (study of molluscs).
Lischke was born in 1819 in Stettin, then a city in the Kingdom of Prussia, now the capital city of West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. He studied law in Berlin, then returned to Stettin and was appointed a magistrate in 1840. In 1847 he served as a military attaché to the Prussian ambassador to the United States of America in Washington, D.C. Lischke was mayor of Elberfeld from 3 December 1850 to 1 January 1873.
Throughout his life Lischke maintained a keen interest in natural sciences, particularly in the study of molluscs. He was particularly interested in the mollusc species of Japan.
His daughter Emmy Lischke (1860-1919) was a German painter known for her landscapes and still lifes.
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German biologist, diplomat and politician (1813-1886)
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Karl Emil Lischke was born on 30 December 1813 in Szczecin.
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Karl Emil Lischke died on 14 January 1886 in Bonn.
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Karl Emil Lischke was a diplomat, politician, lawyer, zoologist, malacologist and primator.
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Karl Emil Lischke was German.
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