Lorenzo Casanova , wildlife animal trader in Italy Born ? in Italy dead 1870 in Egypt . Lorenzo Casanova (-1870) was an animal dealer and had a mobile menagerie and a monkey theater in St. Petersburg. 1862 or 1863: he brought an African elephant from Egyptian Sudan, claimed to be the first import of the Species to Europe, in post Roman time. The elephant was sold to Menagerie Gottlieb Kreutzberg in Germany. 1864: In Dresden Zoo Casanova met Carl Hagenbeck Jr. and concluded an agreement to became a partner with Firma Carl Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany, and according to the agreement, only sell his imported animals for a fixed price to Firma Hagenbeck. 1865: Casanova sold 2 African elephants and other wild mammals, captured in Nubia, to Firma Hagenbeck. 1870: Carl Hagenbeck Jr. had to travel to Suez in Egypt, and take over a shipment of animals, including 5 elephants, from Casanova, who was sick in fever,and died in Alexandria. Hagenbeck brought the animals from Suez to Alexandria, and from there to Port of Trieste, selling some of the elephants on the way to Hamburg. Casanovas death ended their partnership, and after this Carl Hagenbeck started to organize his Africa imports himself.
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