Hagenbeck, HAH gehn behk, Carl (1844-1913), organized the type of trained wild animal acts that are presented today. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and operated a nearby zoo. His father, a fishmonger, made a hobby of collecting and training a few animals. Hagenbeck decided when he was 12 to collect and train animals as a career. One of his first and biggest orders came from the American showman P. T. Barnum.