Carl Hagenbeck
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. 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.
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