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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 displaying humans next to animals in human zoos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Hagenbeck has received more than 170,923 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Hagenbeck is the 274th most popular biologist, the 2,286th most popular biography from Germany and the 44th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 274 out of 841. Before him are June Almeida, Fritz Müller, Alain Bombard, Erich von Tschermak, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, and Valerius Cordus. After him are Arthur Tansley, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, Jacob Christian Schäffer, Alexander von Middendorff, and Marie Stopes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1844, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 48. Before him are Victorine Meurent, Vasily Polenov, George W. De Long, Édouard Branly, Princess Françoise of Orléans, and Édouard Drumont. After him are Gyula Benczúr, Lujo Brentano, Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Garret Hobart, Wilhelm Leibl, and Ivan Yarkovsky. Among people deceased in 1913, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 37. Before him are John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Archduke Rainer Ferdinand of Austria, Hjalmar Johansen, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Louis Paul Cailletet, and Aurel Vlaicu. After him are Ğabdulla Tuqay, Okakura Kakuzō, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales, Hermann, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Émile Ollivier, and Kâmil Pasha.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 2,286 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1676), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1890), Valerius Cordus (1515), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763), and Gretl Braun (1915). After him are George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1547), Anna of Cleves (1552), Christian Lorenz (1966), Oskar Barnack (1879), Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579), and Maximilian Henry of Bavaria (1621).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Carl Hagenbeck ranks 44. Before him are August Grisebach (1814), Hermann Schlegel (1804), Eduard Rüppell (1794), Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809), Fritz Müller (1822), and Valerius Cordus (1515). After him are Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718), Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794), Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802), Wilhelm Peters (1815), Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797), and Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787).

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