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Kaspar Hauser was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell. His claims, and his subsequent death from a stab wound, sparked much debate and controversy both in Nuremberg and abroad. Theories propounded at the time identified Hauser as a member of the grand ducal House of Baden, hidden away because of dynastic intrigue. However, there were also allegatio…
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culture · German youth kept in total isolation · writer · painter · scribe · also Kaspar Hauser, Caspar Hauser, Kasper Hauser, Hauser
Born 30 April 1812 · Died 17 December 1833 · Q44600
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“Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _ the Bavarian border _ _ On the river _ _ _ _ _ I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ö.”
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TV Guide: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Full Cast & Crew
Yahoo: New DNA analysis unravels the mystery of ‘lost prince’ Kaspar Hauser
A scientific study ruled out Hauser's princely descent by comparing mitochondrial DNA haplotypes with the House of Baden
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A new study corroborating previous analysis by massive parallel sequencing ruled out the prince theory by demonstrating that the mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in all samples attributed to Hauser including the previously e
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The Local: HISTORY: Almost two centuries on, who was Kaspar Hauser?
It was adapted into the animated short film Kaspar
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Variety: Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling’s Opera
Harper's Magazine: A Note on Trakl’s ‘Song of Kaspar Hauser’
The English poet David Constantine explored the story and its personae in Caspar Hauser: A Poem in Nine Cantos
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Birgit Scherzer, then director and choreographer of the Saarbrücken Staatstheater Ballet in Germany, used the Hauser story as the basis for the ballet Kaspar Hauser, which she presented at the Saarbrücken Staatstheater
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Suzanne Vega wrote "Wooden Horse (Caspar Hauser's Song)", based on how she imagined Hauser's experiences when he emerged from the dungeon
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Psychiatrist Karl Leonhard stated that:"If he had been living since childhood under the conditions he describes, he would not have developed beyond the condition of an idiot; indeed he would not have remained alive long
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Depicts "the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society's attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values
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Give detailed accounts of the infant prince's birth, illness and death, which would also disprove the hereditary prince theory
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Georg Trakl wrote the poem "Kaspar Hauser Lied" ("Kaspar Hauser Song")
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Otto Mittelstädt presented evidence against the hereditary prince theory, with official documents concerning the infant prince's emergency baptism, autopsy and burial
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Died 1833-12-17.
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With a conspiracy to prevent him from challenging the legitimacy of Leopold I
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Born 1812-04-30.
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But the baby's father, grandmother, and aunt, with the ten Court physicians, the nurses and others, must have seen it, in death, and it is too absurd to suppose, on no authority, that they were all parties to the White L
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