Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an English artist known for his severe physical deformities.

Dec 18, 2024 · Joseph Merrick (born August 5, 1862, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died April 11, 1890, London) was a disfigured man who, after a brief career as a professional “freak,” became a patient of London Hospital from 1886 until his death.

Mar 16, 2024 · Riddled with severe deformities all over his body, Joseph Merrick became a human exhibit known as "the Elephant Man" before dying at 27 in 1890. Billed as "half a man, half an elephant," Joseph Merrick made a living exploiting his deformities as a freak show performer.

Nov 10, 2014 · Best known as the "Elephant Man," Joseph Carey Merrick has been the subject of many medical studies, documentaries and works of fiction.

Aug 29, 2013 · Now, 123 years after his death, scientists believe his bones contain secrets about his condition which could benefit medical science today. Joseph Merrick began to develop abnormally from...

Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an Englishman. His face and body were deformed because of an illness. To earn food, he was shown at freak shows. He was called the Elephant Man. He then became famous after he went to live at the London Hospital. Some people who wrote about him wrongly thought he was called John Merrick.

Oct 31, 2022 · In 1882, in a workhouse in Leicester, England, a young man named Joe Merrick was having an operation on his face. He had been born 20 years earlier, apparently a perfectly normal, healthy baby –...

Over 130 years after his passing, the story of Joseph Merrick, the 'Elephant Man' can still teach us important lessons about acceptance and love.

Joseph Carey Merrick became widely known in late-19th-century London as a human ‘exhibit’ in Whitechapel. Because of his physical disability, he was given the stage name ‘the Elephant Man’.

Joseph Carey Merrick was a disfigured English man who became famous as the Elephant Man when he started working as a professional ‘freak’ in the late19th century. However, his health deteriorated soon after and he stayed at the London Hospital for the remainder of his life.