Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck
Born(1844-06-10)10 June 1844
Died14 April 1913(1913-04-14) (aged 68)
Hamburg, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known for
SpouseAmanda (n. Mehrman)
Children2

Carl Hagenbeck (10 June 1844 – 14 April 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.[1] He created the modern zoo with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natural habitat.[2] He was also an ethnography showman and a pioneer in the display of members of "savage tribes" in Völkerschauen, known nowadays in English as "ethnic shows" or "human zoos",[3][4] which were controversial at the time[5] and are now widely considered racist.[6][7][8][9] The transformation of the zoo architecture initiated by him is known as the Hagenbeck revolution.[10] Hagenbeck founded Germany's most successful privately owned zoo, the Tierpark Hagenbeck, which moved to its present location in Hamburg's Stellingen district in 1907.[4]

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  2. ^ "Hagenbeck Tierpark und Tropen-Aquarium". Zoo and Aquarium Visitor. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
  3. ^ Hilke Thode-Arora (22 Dec 2021). Demski, Dagnosław; Czarnecka, Dominika (eds.). Staged Otherness: Ethnic Shows in Central and Eastern Europe, 1850–1939. Central European University Press. pp. 45–75. ISBN 9789633866887.
  4. ^ a b Ames, Eric (2008). Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98833-7.
  5. ^ "The human zoo".
  6. ^ "Carl Hagenbeck: Inventor of the modern animal park – DW – 06/11/2019". Deutsche Welle.
  7. ^ "Human zoos: When people were the exhibits – DW – 03/10/2017". Deutsche Welle.
  8. ^ "The Other: The Harmful Legacy of Human Zoos".
  9. ^ "6 images of the racist human zoos that time forgot". Independent.co.uk. 19 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Managing Love and Death at the Zoo: The Biopolitics of Endangered Species Preservation" Archived 2012-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 50, May 2011

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