Kaspar Hauser: the True Story

One afternoon in May 1828, two men, standing talking together in the Unschlittspiatz, outside the Neue Thor of Nuremberg, were hailed by a country lad, who asked his way to the Neue Thor Strasse.

He was a fresh-complexioned boy of seventeen or thereabouts, dressed like a countryman, and decidedly short of his age; his clothes were dusty, as from a long tramp, and he looked jaded, but he came up to them with a quick, firm step.

He then pulled a letter out of his pocket addressed, with all the usual German formalities, to “the Captain of the 4th Squadron of the Schmolischer Regiment, Neue Thor Strasse, Nuremberg”...

The story of Kaspar Hauser is both curious and instructive. It shows on how commonplace and unpromising a foundation a myth of European celebrity may rest.

The Author
“The True Story of Kaspar Hauser: from Official Documents” was published in 1893 by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett, the Duchess of Cleveland (1819 – 1901). She was the daughter of Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope. Lord Stanhope, who in December 1831 became Kaspar Hauser’s foster-father, was accused of planning the death of the mysterious boy.

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