Bartel Verhagen elephants in Netherlands

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Bartel Verhagen
Type	private
Last elephant left	1703
Closed down	1703
Place	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
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History of updates	2021-07-13xx

Latest document update	2021-07-13 07:59:53

Description

Bartel Verhagen elephants, in Amsterdam, Netherlands . The last elephant left in 1703. Bartel Verhagen elephants closed down in 1703.

Comments / picturesBertel Verhagen toured Europe in the 1680s with his female Indian elephant, and he also founded the menagerie Die Witte Olifant in 1681.

When Bartel Verhagen died in 1703, his assistant Jan Janszoon rented her to Abraham Sever who brought her to Scotland and Edinburgh.

References for records about Bartel Verhagen

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Bartel Verhagen, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3313. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Florence Pieters, ―The Menagerie of ‗The White Elephant‘ in Amsterdam, with some notes on other 17th and 18th century menageries in The Netherlands,‖ in Die Kulturgeschichte des Zoos, eds. Lothar Dittrich, Dietrich von Endgelhardt and Annelore Rieke-Müller (Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 2001)
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/134/1345701669.pdf

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