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Baartman, Sarah

Record IDcnp00571870
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00571870
Genderfemale
Biographical Data1789 - 1815
Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Femme hottentote
Hottentottin aus der Kapkolonie, die wegen ihrer als monströs empfundenen Formen "Hottentotten-Venus" genannt wurde und in London und Paris als Ausstellungsobjekt zur Schau gestellt wurde
Note de regroupement par domaine: (305)

More Information

Further Biographical Data1789-29.12.1815
1789-1815
ActivityPersonen zu Volkskunde, Völkerkunde (17.4p) (sswd)
Geographic NoteStaat Südafrika
ZA (iso3166)
NationalitySouth Africa

Names

HeadingBaartman, Sarah
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Baartman, Sarah
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Variant NameBaartman, Saartjie
Baartman, Sara
Bartman, Sarah
Vénus hottentote
Hottentotten-Venus
Schwarze Venus

Sources

Found inL'énigme de la Vénus hottentote / Gérard Badou, 2000. — LoC-NA
depiction of ...
Sawtche, named Sarah "Saartjie" Baartman in Europe (ca.1790 - 1815), called the Hottentot Venus, captured in South Africa, exhibited in Europe as a freak show attraction, forced into prostitution, studied as a specimen of "Woman of race Bôchismann" in 1815 by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Georges Cuvier, which deduced theories on the inferiority of some human races. These images are taken from Volume II of the "Illustrations of the Natural History of Mammals." They are found between the representations of a Corsican mouflon (female), and a langur (male)...
[Wermer, Maréchal, Huet, designers ; C. de Lasteyrie, lithograph ; Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Frédéric Cuvier, authors of the text. Uploaded, stitched and restored by Jebulon / Bibliothèque nationale de France -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saartjie Baartman (portrait).jpg]

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