38 Facts About Kaspar Hauser

Kaspar Hauser was a German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell.

The line from the letter "he writes my handwriting exactly as I do" led them to assume that Kaspar Hauser wrote both of them.

Authorities ultimately decided that Kaspar Hauser was a vagrant and sent him to prison.

Kaspar Hauser spent the following two months in Luginsland Tower in Nuremberg Castle, in the care of jailer Andreas Hiltel.

Contrary to many later accounts, observers described Kaspar Hauser as being in good physical condition and able to walk well; for example, he could climb over ninety steps by himself to his room.

Kaspar Hauser had a "healthy facial complexion" and was judged to be approximately sixteen years old but appeared to be intellectually impaired.

At first, most assumed that Kaspar Hauser was a developmentally disabled person from the forests.

Kaspar Hauser claimed that he found rye bread and water next to his bed each morning.

On such occasions, upon awakening, Kaspar Hauser noticed that someone had changed his straw and cut his hair and nails.

Kaspar Hauser claimed that the person he met was a masked man who visited him shortly before his release.

Kaspar Hauser claimed not to understand its meaning at the time.

Kaspar Hauser was formally adopted by the town of Nuremberg and its citizens donated money for his upkeep and education.

Kaspar Hauser appeared to flourish with Daumer, who subjected him to homeopathy and magnetic experiments.

On 17 October 1829, Kaspar Hauser was found in the cellar of Daumer's house bleeding from a wound to his forehead.

Skeptics believed that Kaspar Hauser had deliberately cut himself with a razor, then left it in his room on the first floor before hiding in the cellar.

Kaspar Hauser had recently quarrelled with Daumer, who had accused him of lying.

Kaspar Hauser might have staged the attack to gain sympathy and avoid further reprimand from Daumer.

Quickly reviving, Kaspar Hauser stated that he had climbed on a chair to get some books from a shelf.

Kaspar Hauser had been recently reproached by the Biberbach family for lying.

Kaspar Hauser spent a great deal of money attempting to clarify Hauser's origin.

Kaspar Hauser promised Hauser that he would eventually bring him to England.

However, Kaspar Hauser failed to recognise any buildings or monuments in Hungary.

The last time that Stanhope saw Kaspar Hauser was in January 1832, although he continued to pay Kaspar Hauser's living expenses.

Still hoping that Stanhope would take him to England, Kaspar Hauser was dissatisfied with his life in Ansbach.

When von Feuerbach died in May 1833, Kaspar Hauser mourned his loss.

Kaspar Hauser claimed to have been lured to the Ansbach Court Garden, where a stranger stabbed him while handing him a purse.

Kaspar Hauser was eager for authorities to find the purse he had left behind, but did not ask about its contents.

Inconsistencies in Kaspar Hauser's account led the Ansbach court of enquiry to suspect that he had stabbed himself and then invented a tale about being attacked.

The note itself was folded into a specific triangular form, in the way in which Kaspar Hauser typically folded his letters, according to Mrs Meyer.

Kaspar Hauser was buried in the Stadtfriedhof in Ansbach.

The young Kaspar Hauser would have had to visit a vaccination site to get this shot, accompanied by an adult.

Kaspar Hauser's tale is so full of absurdities that it is astonishing that it was ever believed and is even today still believed by many people.

Kaspar Hauser's parents were Charles, Grand Duke of Baden and Stephanie de Beauharnais, a cousin by marriage and the adopted daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In 2024, 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 Kaspar Hauser including the previously examined blood sample were identical and different from the mitochondrial lineage of the House of Baden.

Kaspar Hauser is presented as an example of a person with a primitive, yet virtuous, personality.

Werner Herzog's 1974 film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser dramatizes Hauser's story.

The Legend of Kaspar Hauser is a 2012 Italian surreal drama film written and directed by Davide Manuli.

Kaspar Hauser was the first to publish a critical summary of the ascertained facts, under the title of Kaspar Hauser, ein Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben.