Kaspar Hauser (* allegedly on 30 April 1812; "† 17 December 1833 in Ansbach, Franconia) was a Findelkind of unsettled origin.

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To 26. May 1828 emerged in Nuremberg at (today still of the same name) the Unschlittplatz 8 for instance a keep-draws looking boy, who could hardly talk. One brought it to the police station, where he wrote the name down "Kaspar Hauser ". In a letter to the Chevauleger Rittmeister Friedrich of Wessenig, which the boy with itself led, the first name Kaspar likewise one called. The letter indicated also date of birth of the boy as 30 April 1812.

Its mental condition excited the interest of lawyers, theologians and paedagogues, who accomplished numerous investigations with it and to it correct speaking taught; He learned vintages and letters with the religion philosopher George Friedrich Daumer. Its promoter and main guardian, who described lawyers Paul Johann Anselm knight of fire brook, that Kaspar disgusted itself at first by meat and milk and only bread and water took to itself. It was assumed that Kaspar Hauser long time lonely in one read out one kept imprisoned. The numerous Biografien over strange humans describe that it had to live as a human experimental animal since its birth in the dark chamber without contact to the external world. Explains the painful experiences, which the young person with light and noises made, when one demonstrated him the sensation-inspired people. Hausers of sensory organs were hypersensitive, its muscles to never develop perfectly had been able themselves. That read out, in which the cruel act is to have been committed, in the area new market, at the today's border to the country, one assumes. The secret around its origin was however never cleared up.

The circumstances of its early death remain strange. It fell on 14 December 1833 in the yard garden to Ansbach an assassination attempt to the victim. The Ansbacher medical officer Dr. Christian William Albert accomplished the autopsy together with his colleague Dr. Christoph Koppen. Additionally the physicians Dr. Johann Karl von Horlacher and Dr. Friedrich William heath realm had been loaded as scientific spectators. According to statements of the performing an autopsy physicians Albert and Koppen it can be excluded that he taught himself the nail hole, which led on 17 December 1833 to its death. Likewise a not interpretable claim of responsibility was found:

"AbzugebenHauser will be able to tell completely exactly it to you, how I look, and from where I am. The Hauser the trouble too ersparenIch come"Â… I come of"Â… the Baieri at the river"Â… I wants also even still the names to say: M.L.

Also Hauser could to be described this assassination attempt as also implemented in former times still akkurat. The pass wound was deadly, on 17 December 1833 against 22 o'clock died Kaspar Hauser. King Ludwig I suspended a then outrageous sum of 10.000 flat steel bars (about 178,950, 00 "€) as reward for the discovery of the murderer. The author was however never determined.

Only two years later in the yard garden a altogether 30 centimeter longer, more damaszierter and on both sides sharply polished Dolch with one erwa 14 cm are enough for blade found. This French Banditendolch was shown during a police exhibition 1926 in Nuremberg. It lay in the Ansbacher museum and since war confusions 1945 disappeared.

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