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Carl Hagenbeck

1844 - 1913

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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. He created the modern zoo with animal enclosures without bars that were closer to their natural habitat. 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", which were controversial at the time and are now widely considered racist. The transformation of the zoo architecture initiated by him is known as the Hagenbeck revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Hagenbeck is the 418th most popular biologist (down from 292nd in 2019), the 2,720th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,294th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 418 out of 1,097. Before him are Eugène Simon, Arthur Tansley, John Needham, Alexander Braun, Heinrich Boie, and George Albert Boulenger. After him are Adolf Mayer, Martha Chase, James P. Allison, Joseph Gaertner, Göran Wahlenberg, and Blasius Merrem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 54. Before him are Joshua Slocum, Lujo Brentano, Wilhelm Leibl, Édouard Branly, Gyula Benczúr, and Princess Françoise of Orléans. After him are Catherine Breshkovsky, Ivan Yarkovsky, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Béhanzin, Tivadar Puskás, and Robert Themptander. Among people deceased in 1913, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 38. Before him are Song Jiaoren, Henry Flagler, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Edwin Klebs, Émile Ollivier, and Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria. After him are Okakura Kakuzō, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, and Aurel Vlaicu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 2,721 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679), Max Pauly (1907), August Schmidhuber (1901), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751), and Charlotte von Stein (1742). After him are Walter Heitz (1878), Georg Hilmar (1876), Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (1663), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Augustus William, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1662), and Kurt Schmitt (1886).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 80. Before him are Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627), Karl Koch (1809), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Georg August Goldfuss (1782), Alexander Braun (1805), and Heinrich Boie (1794). After him are Adolf Mayer (1843), Joseph Gaertner (1732), Blasius Merrem (1761), Wilhelm Roux (1850), Oscar Hertwig (1849), and Franz von Paula Schrank (1747).

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