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
ParentClaus Gottfried Carl Hagenbeck
Hagenbeck with his lions

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 displaying humans next to animals in human zoos.[3] His use of human zoos is widely considered to be inhumane today,[4][5][6][7] and was controversial even at the time.[8] The transformation of the zoo architecture initiated by him is known as the Hagenbeck revolution.[9] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Hagenbeck Tierpark und Tropen-Aquarium". Zoo and Aquarium Visitor. Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2008-07-22. The founder and his idea Carl Hagenbeck built what no other dared dream of. In 1907, the Hamburg man opened the first barless zoo in the world. As early as the end of the nineteenth century, this son of a fishmonger had the idea of showing animals no longer caged up but in open viewing enclosures. In his zoo of the future, nothing more than unseen ditches were to separate wild animals from members of the public. Carl Hagenbeck patented this idea in 1896. Nine years later his dream was to come true in the Stellingen district of Hamburg. The revolutionary open viewing enclosures and panoramas were in fact ridiculed in professional circles but took the public's breath away. Hagenbeck's zoo is considered to have prepared the way for today's wildlife adventure parks.
  3. ^ a b Ames, Eric (2008). Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98833-7.
  4. ^ "Carl Hagenbeck: Inventor of the modern animal park – DW – 06/11/2019". Deutsche Welle.
  5. ^ "Human zoos: When people were the exhibits – DW – 03/10/2017". Deutsche Welle.
  6. ^ "The Other: The Harmful Legacy of Human Zoos".
  7. ^ "6 images of the racist human zoos that time forgot". Independent.co.uk. 19 November 2016.
  8. ^ "The human zoo".
  9. ^ "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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