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Kaspar Hauser
A most unusual young man that
turned up in Nuremburg in 26 May 1828.
He was about 16 years old and wore the rough clothes of a
peasant; people who talked to him thought him to be either drunk or dumb. He carried a
letter to the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment. A shoemaker took
the boy to the captain's house, where the boy repeatedly said, "Ein Reiter will ich
werden, wie mein Vater einer war'' (I want to be a rider like my father). The local police
station custodian took Kaspar into his house and watched him.
Kaspar was healthy, but his feet were
soft like those of a small child. He had an innocent smile, but that was all his face
would express, and he did not know how to use his fingers at all. When he tried to walk,
he stumbled like a toddler.
For the next five years, he was a source of wonder and,
perhaps, fear to the intelligentsia. Who was he? Where had he come from? Why had he been
deprived of a normal existence his entire life? Was he descended from Royalty? His murder
in 1833 only deepened the riddle. Artists and scholars continue to study Kaspar Hauser
to the present day. See Feral Children.
Related
videos:
Kaspar
Hauser.
The
Mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
Related
books:
Caspar
Hauser (20th Century Classics).
Kaspar
Hauser.
Kaspar
Hauser: A Modern Metaphor.
Kaspar
Hauser: Europe's Child.
Kaspar
Hauser; The Struggle for the Spirit.
Kaspar
Hauser Speaks for Himself: Kaspar's Own Writings.
Lost
Prince: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
The
Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of 'Psychosocial Dwarfism': Deficient Statural,
Intellectual, and Social Growth Induced by Child Abuse.
The
Wild Child: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser.
Who
Was Kaspar Hauser? An Essay and a Play.
Further info:
Kaspar Hauser
(kbs.cs.tu-berlin.de).
Kaspar Hauser
(ling.lancs.ac.uk).
Kaspar Hauser - The History & The Play.
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