BIOLOGIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Hagenbeck has received more than 185,716 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Carl Hagenbeck is the 292nd most popular biologist (down from 273rd in 2019), the 2,294th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,284th in 2019) and the 49th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 292 out of 1,097. Before him are Martin Vahl, Josif Pančić, Hieronymus Bock, Rudolf Weigl, Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest, and Johann Hermann. After him are Leopold Fitzinger, Otto Brunfels, Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart, Carl Nägeli, Friedrich Loeffler, and Félix d'Herelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 44. Before him are Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Édouard Branly, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Minna Canth. After him are Vasily Polenov, Eduard Strasburger, Édouard Drumont, Louis Riel, Lujo Brentano, and George W. De Long. Among people deceased in 1913, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 32. Before him are Empress Dowager Longyu, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Song Jiaoren, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, and Henry Flagler. After him are Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Louis Paul Cailletet, Ğabdulla Tuqay, Aurel Vlaicu, Émile Ollivier, and Ralph Rose.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 2,294 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince George William of Hesse-Darmstadt (1722), Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772), Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort (1517), Julius Benedict (1804), Tielman Susato (1500), and Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667). After him are Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler (1598), Klaus Kinkel (1936), Josef Bürckel (1895), Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1497), Adolf Schmal (1872), and August Hermann Francke (1663).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 49. Before him are Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792), and Hieronymus Bock (1498). After him are Otto Brunfels (1488), Friedrich Loeffler (1852), Conrad Moench (1744), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Albert Günther (1830), and Anton Reichenow (1847).

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