Robert Essen , zoo elephant keeper in Sweden Essen was born * 1932-08-11 in Borås Sweden dead 1999-05-19 Borgstena, Borås, in Sweden . Son of Robert Vilhelm Essen and Berta Maria Frideborg Hansson. From 1940 the father Robert Vilhelm owned Borås Zoologiska Affar, a zoo shop at Olovsholmsgatan 10 in Borås, where Robert Jr grew up helping his parents with the animals in the shop.