Victim
Kaspar Hauser
- Born
- 30 April 1812
- Died
- 17 December 1833, aged about 21
- Record
- Wikidata Q44600 · Wikipedia
Victim in The Death of Kaspar Hauser
Foundling who appeared in Nuremberg in 1828; died of a stab wound in Ansbach. The birth date comes only from the letter he carried.
1833 · Hofgarten (Court Garden), Ansbach, Bavaria · Unsolved
A foundling who claimed a childhood in a dark cell, rumours of a stolen prince, and a stab wound in an Ansbach park in 1833. Murder or self-inflicted? Read the case.
Dated events
Hauser's birth date as given in the letter he carried; nothing confirms it.
Hauser is found with a cut to the forehead in Daumer's cellar and says a hooded man attacked him.
A pistol goes off in Hauser's room, slightly wounding his head.
Lord Stanhope moves Hauser to the house of the schoolteacher Johann Georg Meyer in Ansbach.
Hauser and Meyer have a serious quarrel.
Hauser returns from the Court Garden with a deep chest wound, saying a stranger stabbed him.
Hauser dies of the wound in Ansbach.
A DNA test on a blood sample attributed to Hauser finds no match with the House of Baden.
A further DNA study of several samples attributed to Hauser again rules out descent from the House of Baden.