Carl Hagenbeck and the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
The name Hagenbeck was attached to the trade in exotic critters even before Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913) came into the picture. His father Claus Gottfried Carl Hagenbeck (1810"1887), a seafood dealer in Hamburg, Germany, also dealt in wild animals when opportunities came his way. When he was still a teenager Claus gave Carl a polar bear […]