# Sarah Baartman

> A Khoikhoi woman taken from southwestern Africa and displayed across 19th-century Europe under the name "Hottentot Venus" — exhibited for her body, reduced to a curiosity, then a specimen. Her story became the shorthand for colonial exploitation at its most dehumanizing.

*Khoikhoi woman*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/sarah-baartman

## Identity
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1789
- **Died:** 1815-12-29
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born around 1789, Sarah Baartman was a Khoikhoi woman from what is now South Africa. She was brought to Europe and exhibited in freak shows, her steatopygic body type — uncommon in Northwestern Europe — presented as spectacle and subjected to both prurient fascination and scientific scrutiny. The name "Hottentot Venus" fused a Dutch colonial slur with the Roman goddess of love, packaging her as entertainment and erotic projection. She died in Paris on 29 December 1815. At least one other woman was later displayed under the same name, extending the practice that made Baartman's experience synonymous with the commodification of African bodies in the colonial era.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 57.7 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.4 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 23.2 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 50.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #105

## Topics
#Religious Figures, #TV Personality, #Religion, #South Africa, #Africa, #19th Century

## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232041)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Sarah%20Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Sara Baartman](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartmanová](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartmanov%C3%A1)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Sarah Baartman](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman)
- [Sarah Baartman](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Baartman)
- [Sara Baartman](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Baartman)
- [Sara Baartman](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Baartman)
- [سارا بارتمن](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%85%D9%86)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Sarah baartman](https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_baartman)
- [שרה סארטי בארטמן](https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%9F)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [サラ・バートマン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3)
- [세라 바트먼](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%B8%EB%9D%BC_%EB%B0%94%ED%8A%B8%EB%A8%BC)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [Саарти Бартман](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD)
- [Saartjie Baartman](https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman)
- [سارتجي بارتمان](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86)

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