Kaspar Hauser, at first detained as a…

Kaspar Hauser, at first detained as a vagrant, had later been taken under the care of the educationist Georg Daumer.

Next, the 4th Earl of Stanhope had taken the boy under his protection in 1832 and sent him to Ansbach, where he became a clerk in the office of the president of the court of appeal, Anselm von Feuerbach.

On December 13, 1833, the youth dies from a wound that had been either self-inflicted or, as he had claimed, dealt by a stranger.

Around Kaspar Hauser gathers one of the nineteenth century’s most celebrated mysteries.

It will soon be alleged that he was the hereditary prince of Baden (afterward proved false), and other fanciful stories will become associated with his origins.