The Wild Child
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 59
Griessenbeck, Karl Ernst Freiherr von, 201
Guérin, Madame, 41
Hahnemann, Samuel, 45, 224
Hamilton, Marie von, 34, 222
Handke, Peter, 70, 230
Hauser, Kaspar
animals and, 42-43, 53, 121-122, 124
appearance in Nuremberg, 75-78, 96-97
attempt on life of, 3, 15-16, 137-143, 179, 215
attempts to discredit, 3, 4, 24-25, 51-52, 61, 64, 156, 180-182, 220, 229-230, 235
autobiography of, 10-14, 50, 94, 135, 136, 152, 187-195, 214
autopsy on, 217
in Biberbach household, 16
Binder’s proclamation and, 5-8, 94, 154, 161-172, 212, 232
captivity and abandonment of, 11-13, 35-37, 50, 53, 60, 68, 69, 95-104, 154, 164-171, 189-195
clothing worn by, 11, 13, 79, 152, 164, 167, 193
colors and, 108-109
in Daumer household, 8-10, 18, 41-42, 45-47, 93, 108, 118-135, 214
doctors’ examination of, 5, 83, 153, 162-163
drawing by, 35, 91, 109-110, 200
dreams of, 27, 35, 97, 119, 197-202
food and, 4, 12, 13, 45-46, 49, 76, 78, 84-85, 95, 119, 150, 154, 157, 162-165, 189-191, 195, 214
horseback riding and, 124-125, 131, 158, 175, 180
language and speech of, 5, 49, 75-77, 86, 87, 92, 93, 107, 144, 152, 212, 221, 229, 230
letter carried by, 4, 80-81, 152-153, 161-162, 193, 212
memory of, 110-111, 150, 163
in Meyer household, 18-23, 158, 216, 217, 229-230
murder of, 3, 19-26, 65, 217-218
music and, 86
name, 78, 152
nature and, 120, 122-123, 148-149
obedience of, 111, 170
orderliness and cleanliness of, 112
parentage of, 3, 4, 27-35, 51, 158, 179, 181-182, 218-219, 232, 233, 235
physical appearance of, 4, 81-83, 144, 161-163, 212
religion and, 18, 19, 79-80, 90, 131-135, 149, 158
senses of, 10,42,46, 112-116, 122, 125-131, 150, 224
Stanhope’s attempts to discredit, 24-25, 156, 220
Stanhope’s interest in, 14, 17-19, 25, 156, 158, 216
Hauser, Kaspar (cont.)
toys and, 8, 11, 13, 87-89, 91, 95, 105, 128-129, 164, 189-191, 201, 213
in Tucher household, 17
in Vestner Gate Tower, 78-79, 85-92, 104-117
visitors to, 8, 15-16, 43-45, 116, 118, 156, 163, 179, 212
writing of, 10, 13, 78, 96, 155, 214
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm, 9, 17
Heidenreich, Friedrich Wilhelm, 217
Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm, 149, 158
Hennenhofer, Johann von, 36, 216
Hermann, Professor, 129, 157, 189
Herodotus, 48
Herzog, Werner, 230
Hesse, wolf child of, 51, 223, 236
Heydenreich, Wilhelm, 220
Hickel, Joseph, 30-32, 220, 232, 234
Hiltel, Andreas, 90-92, 152, 155, 194, 195
Hiltel, Julius, 91, 92, 152
Hiltel, Margareta, 91, 152
Historical Mysteries (Lang), 26
History (Herodotus), 48
Hitzig, 180, 233
Hochberg, Countess of (Luise Geyer von Geyersberg), 27-28, 31, 33, 36, 217, 220, 222
Hofer, Klara, 35
Hofmann, Andreas, 20
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 53
Homeopathy, 8, 45
Horn, Doctor, 97
Hoven, Doctor von, 153
Hubenstricher, Heinrich, 233
Hutten-Czapski, Bogdan Graf von, 222
Incest, 66
Isabella, 154
Itard, Jean-Marc-Gaspard, 39-41, 223, 224
Jarrell, Randall, 208
Jungle books, the (Kipling), 207-208
Kamala, 67, 205, 207, 209
Karl, Grand Duke of Baden, 19, 27, 29, 30, 32, 35-36, 221-222
Karl Friedrich von Baden, 27-28
Karoline, Queen Mother of Bavaria, 29-31, 219, 234
Kaspar Hauser (film), 54, 216
Kaspar Hauser (Handke), 70, 230
Kaspar Hauser: Biespiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen (Feuerbach), 8, 32
translation of, 73-158, 182
Kaspar Hauser: Sein Wesen, seine Unschuld, seine Erduldungen und sein Ursprung (Daumer), 202, 214, 216, 225, 230
Kaspar Hauser Question, The (A. Feuerbach), 37, 223
Kaspar Hauser syndrome, 3, 211
Kennedy, John F., 37
Kipling, Rudyard, 207-209, 236, 237
Klee, Fritz, 36, 54, 200, 223
Klüber, Friedrich von, 217
Klüber, Johann Ludwig von, 20, 31-33, 217, 221
“Knabe, Der” (Rilke), 53
Kolb, Georg Friedrich, 23, 183
Koppen, Doctor, 22
Lane, Harlan, 39, 40, 224
Lang, Andrew, 26
Lang, Karl Heinrich Ritter von, 21
Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, 28, 31, 34, 220
Leroux, Didier, 223
Leuchtenberg, August, 30
Leuchtenberg, Eugen von, 222
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 224
Lieber, Francis, 213
Life Is a Dream (Calderón de la Barca), 74, 151, 155
Linberg, Henning Gottfried, 213
Linde, Antonius von der, 182, 187, 235
Lübeck, Schmidt von, 99
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, 28, 29, 34, 38, 222, 232
Maclean, Charles, 207
Malson, Lucien, 223, 224
Mann, Golo, 52
Mann, Klaus, 53
Mann, Thomas, 53, 213
Mannoni, Octave, 224
Marx, Karl, 213
Mayer, Johannes, 9, 24, 26, 32, 33, 54, 176, 186, 215, 216, 220-223, 231
Melville, Herman, 3, 53, 226
Mémoire: Wer möchte wohl Kaspar Hauser Sein? (Feuerbach), 29-30, 181, 202, 218, 219, 233, 234
Memoirs of My Mental Illness (Schreber), 60
Merk, Johann Mathias, 152
Merker, Johann Friedrich Karl, 51, 125, 180-182, 211, 229, 233, 234
Meyer, Johann George, 18-23, 65, 66, 156, 218, 229-230
Meyer, Julius, 179, 182, 220, 232
Mitteilungen über Kaspar Hauser (Daumer), 180, 187-188, 214, 215, 233
Mittelstädt, Otto, 182, 183, 235
Money, John, 211
Montagu, Ashley, 206
Montaigne, Michel de, 47
Montessori, Maria, 224
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon (Sterndal), 208
Nepos, Cornelius, 147
Ogburn, William F., 206
Osterhausen, Johann Karl, 37, 83, 117-118, 130, 153, 223
Öttingern-Wallerstein, Prince of, 23-24
Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach: Ein Juristenleben (Radbruch), 177, 213, 232
Peter from Halin, 51, 223
Philip Henry Lord Stanhope (Mayer), 215, 216, 220, 222
Pies, Hermann, 54, 176-185, 187, 189,211,214,217,218,220, 222, 232-235
Pinel, Philippe, 39-40
Pino, Louise Baronin Belli di, 222
Pitt, William (the Younger), 14
Plato, 84
Preu, Doctor, 5, 37, 50, 140, 153, 223
“Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia” (Freud), 60-61
Radbruch, Gustav, 177, 178, 183-184, 213, 232, 233
“Recall of Childhood Trauma: A Prospective Study of Women’s Memories of Child Sexual Abuse” (Williams), 62
Recke, Elise von der, 43-45, 70, 179
Repression, 55, 67
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 53
Rimbaud, Arthur, 52
Romulus and Remus, 39, 203
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 38, 39, 47-49
Russell, Diana, 63
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm, 9
Schloss Pilsach, 35, 200-201
Schmidt, Friedrich Ludwig von, 30, 182, 234
Schreber, Daniel Paul, 60-61
Sehr, Peter, 54, 216
Sexual abuse, 40, 55-65, 227-229
Shakespeare, William, 39
Singh, J. A. L., 203-207, 209
Sleeman, William Henry, 236
Something of Myself (Kipling), 209
Sophie, Archduchess of Austria, 30, 34,219
“Soul murder,” 64-65, 102
Spenser, Edmund, 4
Stanhope, Charles, Earl of, 14
Stanhope, Hester, 14
Stanhope, Philip Henry, Earl of attacks Feuerbach’s account, 174-175, 181, 234
attempts to discourage Daumer from publishing, 173-174, 231
attempts to discredit Hauser, 24-25, 156, 220
complicity in Hauser’s murder, 24-26, 32, 218
dedication of Feuerbach’s book to, 74, 151
final letter to Hauser, 23
interest in Hauser, 14, 17-19, 25, 156, 158, 216
Stéphanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden, 3, 19, 21, 27, 29-32, 35, 218, 219, 222
Sterndal, Robert A., 208
Struve, Ulrich, 54
Thesis against Feuerbach (Marx), 213
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud), 227
Tittman, Carl August, 101
Tolstoy, Leo, 67
Tradowsky, Peter, 217, 233
Trakl, Georg, 53
Truffaut, François, 39
Tucher, Gottlieb Freiherr von, 16, 17, 34, 49, 197-199, 216, 222, 229, 231
Tucholsky, Kurt, 53
Turm, Der (Hofmannsthal), 53
Über Kaspar Hauser (Lübeck), 99
“Unsolved Riddle of Nuremberg, The” (anonymous), 22
Unverstand und schlechte Erziebung (Eschricht), 52
Vega, Suzanne, 3
Verlaine, Paul, 52
Victoria, Queen of England, 32
Voltaire, 114, 156
Wagner, Richard, 217
Wassermann, Jakob, 53
Weickmann, Georg Leonhard, 75
Wessenig, Friedrich von, 75-78, 151
White Wolf (Brandenburg), 209
Wild Boy of Aveyron, The (Lane), 224
Wild Boy of Aveyron (Victor), 4, 39-41, 223
Wild Child, The (film), 39
Wild children, 38-41, 50-51, 223-224
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Goethe), 59
Williams, Linda, 62
Winter’s Tale, The (Shakespeare), 39
Wolf Child and Human Child (Gesell), 206
Wolf children, 67, 203-209
Wolf Children and Feral Man (Singh and Zingg), 203, 205-207
Wolf Children and the Problem of Human Nature (Malson), 223, 224
“Wood Horse (Caspar Hauser’s Song)” (Vega), 3
Zimmer, Dieter, 225
Zingg, R. M., 203, 236
This is a contemporary portrait of Kaspar Hauser, that Feuerbach used as the frontispiece to the book translated in this volume. Kaspar sent signed copies of this portrait to various friends. The one reproduced here was sent to Elise, one of Feuerbach’s daughters. (Reproduced with permission from Kaspar Hauser: Das Kind von Europa, by Johannes Mayer. All illustrations here are from this source unless otherwise noted.)
This is a contemporary picture of the Unschlittplatz in Nuremberg, where Kaspar Hauser first appeared on May 26, 1828. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon when he suddenly turned up looking lost, dazed, confused, and helpless.
A contemporary photograph of the dungeon at Schloss Pilsach in which Kaspar Hauser was probably imprisoned. The novelist Klara Hoffer bought the castle and discovered the dungeon in 1924.
This tempera drawing by Kaspar Hauser is the earliest one to have survived. Dated April 22, 1829, it bears an astonishing resemblance to the ironwork around the window in the dungeon of Schloss Pilsach (below) where it is now believed that Kaspar Hauser was imprisoned and isolated for twelve years.
This small white wooden horse was found recently during renovations made in Schloss Pilsach.It answer almost perfectly to the description of the horse Kaspar Hauser played with in his dungeon and is probably the original.
A portrait of Anselm von Feuerbach (1775-1833) done in 1831, two years before he died. He was a German judge (renowned for outlawing torture in Bavaria) who first investigated Kaspar Mauser’s „scase,” wrote a famous book about him, and became his staunches! ally, protector, and friend.
Georg Friedrich Daumer (1800-1875) was Kaspar Hauser’s first teacher and remained his steadfast friend to the end. He wrote a series of books defending the authenticity of Kaspar Hauser, the first in 1832 while Kaspar was still alive, the last published shortly before Daumer’s own death. His contemporary notes about Kaspar Hauser were found only in 1994.
Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope (1781-1855), is the most mysterious figure in the drama of Kaspar Hauser’s life. He befriended Kaspar, offered to take him to his castle in Chevening and adopt him, and handed over large sums of money for his upkeep. Recent research has clearly demonstrated that he was in the pay of the house of Baden and was involved, directly or indirectly, in the murder of Kaspar Hauser.
A contemporary portrait of Stéphanie (Beauharnais) of Baden. She was adopted by Emperor Napoleon, who arranged her marriage to Karl of Baden. She is widely believed by historians to be the real mother of Kaspar Hauser. When she read Feuerbach’s book on January 24, 1832, she asked Stanhope to bring Kaspar Hauser to her. He promised to do so but did not fulfil his promise. Although many people even at that time thought Kaspar Hauser was her son, she appears either not to have believed it or to have been unable to bear the thought.
Gottlieb Freiherr von Tucher (1798-1877) in old age. He was Kaspar Hauser’s benefactor and attempted in vain to protect him against Stanhope.
These are two drawings made by Kaspar Hauser of the weapon with which an attempt was made on his life on October 17, 1829. He made the first drawing on November 5, 1829, and did the second in 1830. The handwriting on the page is by Kaspar Hauser and reads, “This is an instrument similar to the one with which I was wounded on October 17, and which was supposed to have killed me.” (Drawing after Pies, “Eyewitness Accounts,” 1925. Drawing and photo: Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg)
A contemporary colored lithograph of Ansbach, the small city where Kaspar Hauser was sent for his safety. He lived here with a rigid school teacher, Johann Georg Meyer. On the right is the “Orangerie,” the grove where he was lured by a promise that he would receive news of his mother, and then murdered at the age of twenty-one, on December 14, 1833, a few years he arrived in Ansbach.
This is one of the most unusual of Kaspar Hauser’s drawings, done in 1831. The original, which I saw in Ansbach, has amazing colors.