Kaspar Hauser

On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in Nuremberg. This new case of a 'wild man' excited widespread curiosity, and many prominent figures wanted to test their pedagogical and medical theories on such a promising subject. Who was he? Was he, as many claimed, the rightful heir to the Grand Duchy of Baden, or was he simply an ingenious fraud? This book examines the many ramifications of this fascinating case, and offers many insights into the social, political and intellectual life of Biedermeier Germany.

'In this exhaustively researched book, Kitchen uses a celebrated incident from the age of Metternich...sure to appeal to a wide range of readers.' - Choice

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MARTIN KITCHEN is Professor at the Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada. His publications include, as author, The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History and Fascism and he is co-author (with L.Aronsen) of The Origins of the Cold War in Comparative Perspective.

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Introduction Feral Man Kaspar Hauser Appears in Nuremberg Homeopathic Experiments The Search for Identity Anseim Ritter von Feuerbach and Crimes Against the Soul Philip Henry, Lord Stanhope Kaspar Hauser in Ansbach The Death of Kaspar Hauser Kaspar Hauser and the Grand Duchy of Baden Who Was Kaspar Hauser? Literary Representations of Kaspar Hauser