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1689 VON WIERING, Th. - Showing the Swiss dwarf Hans Worrenberg, an entertainer of the 1680s, who died accidentally in Rotterdam in 1695
Abbild des sehr kleinen Männleins auß der Schweitz Hans Worrenberg genant, ist lang zwei Fuß und sieben zoll, alt 36 Jahr wie zu Hamburg Anno 1687 im Majo und Junio gesehen worden. |
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Engraving of Hans Worrenberg, a dwarf from Switzerland, at age 36 in 1687.
Hans Worrenberg was a 17th-century Swiss dwarf who became a touring show performer, known mainly from prints, broadsides, and later catalogs.
His name appears in several forms: Hans Worrenberg, Hans Worrenbergh, Johann/John Worrenburg, John Woremberg, and John Wormbergh. A German museum record describes him as “the very small man from Switzerland,” seen in Hamburg in May–June 1687, 2 feet 7 inches tall and 36 years old, and lists him as active as a showman in Hamburg in 1687 and London in 1688.
In London, he was advertised as a rare public attraction. A Wellcome Collection etching from 1688 identifies him as “John Woremberg a Switzar”, 2 feet 7 inches tall, 38 years old, “to be seen now in London.” A later historical account says handbills promoted him as having been seen by the king and nobility at Whitehall, that he sang, spoke High Dutch, and could be visited at the Plume of Feathers in the Stock Market or privately by appointment.
The surviving records also say he died in 1695 in Rotterdam. The common story is that he was being carried in a wooden box across a plank from a quay to a ship; the plank broke, he fell into the water while enclosed in the box, and drowned.
Reference: Bruno Weber: Das Porträt auf Papier, Zürich 1984, Nr. 116.
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