Karl Emil Lischke - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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German biologist, diplomat and politician

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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 German Empire, 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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