Carl Hagenbeck
German trainer of animals and circus manager
Died when: 68 years 308 days (826 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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.The transformation of the zoo architecture initiated by him is known as the Hagenbeck revolution.
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.
He was also an ethnography showman and a pioneer in displaying humans next to animals in human zoos.
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